on 14/7/01 12:36 PM, Candice Ward at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Yes, and is there any (grammatical) reason why Frag. 31 can't be read as
> allewding to a homosocial occasion?
Anne Carson, in her Eros the Bittersweet, has an interesting essay on this
fragment. She argues against the poem being about jealousy or that the poet
wants to be in place of the man. She says "Sappho perceives desire by
identifying it as a three part structure ... For, where eros is lack, its
activation calls for three structural components -lover, beloved and that
which comes between them ... The third component plays a paradoxical role
for it both connects and separates, marking that two are not one,
irradiating the absence whose presence is demanded by eros ... For in this
dance people do not move. Desire moves. Eros is a verb." (pp.16-17).
Cheers,
Jill
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