Sappho Translation

So this week, we had to post our own translation of a poem. My first expression was, "great I hate poetry." I was never a fan of poetry. The only types of poetry I like is children poems (yay Shel Silverstein!). I remember beginning the reading assignment and thought "these words realy have no meaning to me." And it was true, I really could not relate to the Sappho works. I must have read the translations 15 times, until I had an idea for my own translation. As I began to jot down my own translation, I began to understand her work more - just in my own words.

I thought the most challenging part of this assignment was getting together with our group to make one uniformed Sappho translation out of all our own interpretations. But overall, the assignment was not as bad as I predicted, I just hope I don't have to write anymore poems - HA!