Sappho's Techniques.

Question 1

What are ‘topoi’/’topos’ that Sappho frequently used in her poems?

Answer 1

These are recurring features in poetry, and can be very similar to themes, or can be literary techniques.

Question 2

What are some themes Sappho uses in her poems?

Answer 2

Nature as a metaphor for sex, invocations of the gods, shift of narrator within a poem, the use of humour.