Name: Feni (2211418004)

Word Literature Lesson 4

1. Sappho wasn’t a modern poet; rather, she was a singer-songwriter, in the

ancient lyric tradition. Her poetry was meant to be performed, and the
scholars who wrote down her lyrics likely did so with their associated
melodies ringing through their heads. Even without tunes, ancient Greek
has a very different, more sonic quality, than modern English. Additionally,
the language was tonal. The same syllables could mean different things, if
spoken in different pitches. All this meant that spoken Greek sounded more
varied and musical than the English translations of Sappho we read today.
And then there’s the fact that we now usually read poetry silently to
ourselves, a practice that didn’t exist in Sappho’s Greece.
2. Sappho’s poems tell about the love and natural beauty of Greek in his time
long ago. His poem more or less describes how he is in love with such
beautiful words and in a romantic way. Meanwhile Pindar makes his poetry
long enough and clear about what he wants to convey to the readers. His
poetry is more about the gods and their characters that Pindor wants to
portray in his poetry with a story that he made-up.

Imagery
Imagery can be defined as a writer or speaker’s use of words or figures of
speech to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation. Both poets
have their own mind how to use imagery in their poems and reflect
themselves on it.

Similarities between Sappho and Pindor in those poems are Sappho and
Pindor tends to describe their poems with visual imagery and also in a little
tactile imagery. Meanwhile the differences in imagery between both poems
are that Sappho used kinesthetic imagery, but Pindor doesn’t. But in other
hands, Pindor used so many audio imagery, but Sappho doesn’t.

Figure of Speech
 Figure of speech is a word or phrase that is used in a non-literal way to
create an effect. This effect may be rhetorical as in the deliberate
arrangement of words to achieve something poetic.

Similarity
Both poems are using the same figure of speech which is metaphor and
hyperbola. Sappho: “altar of love” (metaphor), “words which I command
are immortal” (hyperbola).
Pindor: “water from the sky, the rainy child of cloud” (metaphor), “song of
a glory upon your olive wealth of gold” (hyperbola).

Difference
Meanwhile in the difference, I can find that Sappho used personification,
but Pindor doesn’t. Sappho: “moon cover their own bright faces”.

3. Both poems are giving description about worshipping God and the natural
beauty within. In Sappho there is a line: “which I command are immortal”
means only God can rule that long, no humans have such long time as
immortal. In Pindor also he’s doing the same. There is a line: “by God’s
grace does a man blossom in accordance” means that they wanted God’s
agreement to make all their decision.