Period 4, Michael Carleo, Eng 4 HNR

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1) I understood the poem "He is More Than a Hero" the best for many reasons. The title of this poem helped me understand it the best unlike the other two because it was actually like a title instead of a line in the poem or an ode to a god. Also the content in the poem supports the title like in lines 3 through 8, "he who listens intimately to the sweet murmur of your voice, the enticing laughter that makes my own heart beat fast." This explains how important this person is to Sappho. As it goes on in the poem, it says that when Sappho sees this person, Sappho is star struck, almost to the point of death. The other two poems were too confusing to me because of the line setup and also the content within them. I also got lost going through the others until i read them 3 or 4 times. I understood this one the first time i read it.

6) These poems would do justice to a R&B singer like Beyonce or KC and JoJo. The reason why these poems fit their genre is because when each of these singers sing, they do it with such passion and believe in what they actually sing. Sappho does the same thing in poetry like the hero poem. Beyonce and KC and JoJo also have a lot of deeper meaning in their songs like Beyonce's "Dangerously In Love" and KC and JoJo's "All My Life". These songs can relate to the hero poem again and also to "To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos" because they speak about one person, god in Sappho's case, and how much they care and wait for that person.