2013 Fragments of Sappho While many translations of Sappho’s work have been elaborated upon‚ Anne Carson aims to put less of herself into her work so we get more Sappho! Anne Carson’s ‘If Not Winter’ depicts Sappho in her truest form. There is no flourishing to her texts‚ only careful incomplete translations that force the reader to imagine what the complete versions of the texts might have looked like. The empty space creates‚ although assumingly unintended by Sappho‚ a poetic emphasis on word
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Biology II 20 September 2013 “Venom: The Bite That Heals” Summary Nearly as long as humans have existed‚ they have used animals and plants for medicine and treatment. Specifically the venom of animals have been used to treat ailments ranging from stroke to sore throats. As early as 67 BC written records of venom being administered to cure or save a person were found. Mithradates VI of Pontus was reported to have used snake venom from a Steppe Viper to save his life not once but twice. Recently
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Army Wife‚ in Sardis” By: Sappho Island of Lesbos Summary of Introduction (Pg.11) World Literature; An Anthology of Great Short Stories‚ Poetry‚ and Drama The introduction introduces a life of a young poet named Sappho. Sappho was known as being‚ “… among the earliest known female lyric poets.” Sappho’s poems were composed of detailed material which was recognized by the “Greek Philosopher Plato”. On the island of Lesbos‚ in the town of Eresos‚ Sappho was born to “ an aristocratic
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Sappho 620 BCE–550 BCE Little is known with certainty about the life of Sappho‚ or Psappha in her native Aeolic dialect. She was born probably about 620 B.C. to an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos during a great cultural flowering in the area. Apparently her birthplace was either Eressos or Mytilene‚ the main city on the island‚ where she seems to have lived for some time. Even the names of her family members are inconsistently reported‚ but she does seem to have had several brothers
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Sappho Analysis Summary * Sappho is the author of the poem to an army wife in Sardis. Sappho was a writer‚ she lived and wrote on the island of lesbos. On this island she would teach women‚ and write them poems. * Sappho actually developed feelings for many of her female students‚ and that’s where the term lesbians is derived from‚ the island of Lesbos.. * We feel The poem is a response letter from a soldier to his wife named anactoria. Anactoria happened to be one of sapphos students
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and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self defense. Some posses venom potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Non venomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by constriction. (Joseph 1991) Snake venom is a highly modified saliva produced by snake’s special salivary gland. Snake venom is of a very proteinceous nature with protein constituting 90 percent or more of the venom’s dry weight. The nature of this venom was first established
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Sappho: Poems In her work “Let’s Not Pretend‚” Sappho juxtaposes opposite ends of the spectrum of being‚ using life and death‚ black and white‚ mortality and immortality‚ old-age and youth‚ but not in a nostalgic theme. She cites her current old age‚ and seems to be relatively acceptant of the fact that life is indeed waning‚ and that she‚ unlike so many who she has seen‚ will not simply be stuck in the quest for eternal beauty. She writes “No‚ no one can cure it; keep beauty from going/And I
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Knowing this information and more can possibly save yours or somebody else’s life when put into a situation when you have been bitten by a snake and can’t identify it‚ this paper will educate you on what to do in case of a snake bite and how the venom works on the human body. Snake bite- “the wound made by the fangs of a venomous snake or the teeth of a non-venomous one.” (Snakebite). Snakes only bite to capture prey or protect themselves when they feel threatened. When they feel threatened they
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SNAKE BITES VENOM AND ANTI-VENOM Snake venom is modified saliva and is produced by modified saliva glands. Venoms are rich in hydrolithic enzymes‚ a complex mix of polypeptides‚ nucleases‚ peptidases‚ etc.‚ which help digest the snake’s prey. Some of them also enhance or contribute to the toxic effect of the venom. As early as 1949 it was shown that an enzyme from the Bothrops species produces a vasodilation resulting from the production of a hypotensor neuropeptide‚ bradykinin. This had important
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Analysis Essay- Sappho Sappho’s poem‚ “To an Army Wife‚ in Sardis”‚ is one of the few poems of the Greek poetess from the 7th century B.C.‚ which was saved for posterity. This poem involves the reader in a very personal debate over what deserves to be valued in life‚ the military values‚ or the true love of a person for somebody‚ the poetess offering to the audience her opinion‚ “but I say that whatever one loves is”‚ from the beginning. The poem will make the reader‚ through a very simple‚ yet
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