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[9] Tithonus's character offers a strong contrast to that of Ulysses. The two poems are matched and opposed as the utterances of Greek and Trojan, victor and vanquished, hero and victim. [10] According to critic William E. Cain, "Tithonus has discovered the curse of fulfillment, of having his carelessly worded wish come true.
The story of Tithonus was popular in archaic Greek poetry, though the reference to him in this poem seems out of place, according to Rawles. [16] However, Page duBois notes that the use of a mythical exemplum to illustrate the point of a poem, such as the story of Tithonus in this poem, is a characteristic feature of Sappho's poetry – duBois ...
The Cologne papyrus on which the Tithonus poem is preserved was part of a Hellenistic anthology of poetry, [16] and predates the Alexandrian edition. [17] Two fragments list opening lines of poems: Fr. 103 contains openings to ten of Sappho's poems, and Fr. 213C Campbell quotes openings to poems by Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon ; both might be ...
Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. [a] It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century.
"Tithonus" by Alfred Tennyson was originally written as "Tithon" in 1833 and completed in 1859. [17] The poem is a dramatic monologue in blank verse from the point of view of Tithonus. Unlike the original myth, it is Tithonus who asks for immortality, and it is Aurora, not Zeus, who grants this imperfect gift. As narrator, Tithonus laments his ...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism. The title contains an allusion to the fourth stanza of John Donne's poem, "The Canonization", which is the primary subject of the first chapter of the book.
The Heresy of Paraphrase" is the name of the paradox where it is impossible to paraphrase a poem because paraphrasing a poem removes its form, which is an integral part of its meaning. Its name comes from a chapter by the same name in Cleanth Brooks 's book The Well-Wrought Urn .
André Lardinois argues that parallels between lines 4–5 and 21, and the repetition of stanzas ending with mentions of gods at lines 8, 26, and 29, suggest Sappho 96 is a single long poem; [10] while Gregory Hutchinson thinks that a new poem probably began at line 21, as that stanza would not make sense as a continuation of the first part of ...