Erotic Love in Selected Poems of Sappho | ||
| Buhuth Mustaqbaliya Scientific Periodical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, December 2012, Pages 1-19 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Kamal Marsho Alias; Raia Abdul-Wahid Abdul-Aziz | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract The present study sheds light on the theme love in some of Sappho's poems. It tackles the erotic side of love. It is divided into an introduction and three other sections. The introduction is devoted to some definitions of love and its types. It also alludes to some aspects of Sappho's life and the society where she lived. The first section tackles the motivations of Sappho's writing erotic poetry which came to be social. The second section deals with the defense of woman and attacking patriarchy through which she attempts to free woman from the dominating force of man. In the third section the sexual satisfaction is tackled in details. It shows the reasons why Sappho wrote erotic poems which are mostly psychological. The themes of union and the fear of separateness are the most important ones. Then the conclusion sums up the results the present study concludes. | ||
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