Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
analysis:
Sappho, the author used the metaphor of wind and oak to represent his love and himself.
The wirlwind is very tall and strong column of air that spins fast. The imagery of wirlwind is very strong, firm, effective, and imminent. so does love. Like a wirlwind, love strikes the author without any warning. Swoop has the same imgery. Rather than touching softly, swoop means aggresive and strong strike that overwhelms or wraps the author. Author is an oak which is shaken by imminent whirland which is love. He, his heart is shaken by love called whirlwind.
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I wonder why the author chose the "oak" to be attacked by the whirlwind. I think the poem is short and strong. Giving a pretty good detailed image in mind showing how love is shaken within the soul.
I agree with you, the poem is very strong and at the same time it is very short, but it shows how the author feels so shaken by this whirlwind called "love."
I think the author chose an oak, because the oak is a hard tree with a stong root system (not easily shaken), so by including this imagery it adds to the strength of the wind (or love) to shake the tree (or him). I believe it also shows how love can "shake" him, but it is not breaking him (and oak stands up to wind).
Um...Sappho is a chick. Lol.
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