Anne Carson's Sappho: A Greek Poet

Sappho is a Greek poet, and more importantly, she is a female Greek poet living in 5th century BCE. Her life is almost as hard to decipher as her poem; the only information we tentatively knew about her is that she is a hugely respected poet whose reputation manage to endured through until today. Many poets, artists, and writers throughout the ages have taken a turn at interpreting and translating her poem to their “modern era” that it seems like a rite of passage for aspiring writers. One of the more recent translation of Sappho’s work is by Anne Carson; who is an accomplish Canadian poet during the 20th to 21st century. She professed in her book If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, that her translation is of the simplest form trying to stay