Evaluation Criteria for Text Sources

In her book about education as a vehicle for social mobility of women in society, author, philosopher, and women’s rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft uses several rhetorical devices to build her argument about women’s roles in society. She uses a comparison and contrast expository mode to help people understand the modern woman’s experience, especially as it differs from the experience of men, appeal to pity to create an emotional connection with her audience, and restrained diction to show how confined women are in society, all through an iconoclastic and indignant tone.

Throughout the fragmented poem, Sappho expresses how someone else’s degrading words affect her and how she handles that pain. She is quick to judge and takes action after being put down. With the descriptions of her pain in movements, she tells a story of what caused her pain.

Feminist critical lens examines certain texts with a primary focus on both gender’s relationship with each other and how such relationships demonstrate effects towards beliefs, behaviors, and values. This critical lens also examines a patriarchal-centered society and how such society define and interact with women with an emphasis on stereotypes of both genders that are present and evident in the text being analyzed. William Shakespeare’s Othello can be scrutinized through the feminist critical lens. A deep analysis focused on feminism of the play Othello paves way for the judgement of different societal status of women in the period when the play took place, the Elizabethan society. Othello is a best fit that demonstrates how men were

In this assignment I am going to be talking about a complex piece of work that I have already done for an assignment, and I will be explaining the value of 3 different resources and evaluating the 3 sources in terms of validity. The 3 resources that I am going to be talking about are: the internet, a text book, and NHS facts. I found all of these resources useful in different ways, and also reliable in different ways. I chose these particular resources because I have many opinions about them, some good, some bad. The

Sappho’s poem, entitled Fragment 16, is of the lyrical style instead of the epic style we are used to in Homer’s Iliad. The lyrical style of poetry got its name because it was usually accompanied by a lyre while it was recited. It also was used to express more emotion rather than telling a story. This form of poetry seems to be more artistic rather than the story telling of epic poetry of the time. In this poem we are able to use the comparison of different imagery to understand a common theme within the poem itself. The reason for the interesting title of the poem is because most of Sappho’s poetry is now only found in fragmented forms. Most of Sappho’s writing is from 600 B.C.E.

Sappho is an ancient Greek poet who is known for her capability in the theorization and processing of love, though in The New Sappho her curiosity and amusement tends to turn its perspective to the idea of age. While we are used to the common concept of love and appearance of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, in Sappho’s poems, it seems that The New Sappho is both a play on her age, as well as a metaphor for her new subject. The poem’s title seems to suggest a rebirth or a renewal of being, yet in contradiction her physical form is aging.

We all commonly assume that we act freely, that we make our own decisions without regard to the opinions of those around us. We all like to think we create our own stories, and choose the way we tell them. However, many of us are probably at least tempted to wonder if this a thing completely within our control, how much of it is, and how we can resist attempts of others to write our stories for us, regardless of what we actually desire. Particularly when it comes to women, the society around us is very sure of what it wants our stories to be, and who should tell them and when. This is, of course, a process that begins early. As Foss,

The translation of Sappho’s ‘Some Say’ that is most persuasive is translation 1. This is because of the descriptive language used, the emotion that is evoked from the poem and also the depth in which is portrayed through the poem.

I would evaluate the credibility by searching domains with the endings like .edu, .gov, .org, and .com. These domains tend to deliver a little more substance and credibility. These sources are highly trusted with helpful information. To further your search and narrow it down, you can use “Boolean”

“I adore delicacy” (Simpson, 1998, http://condor.depaul.edu/dsimpson/tlove/sappho2.html), says Sappho in one of the fragments found by historians. Sappho used highly opinionated, intimate and sensual literature to earn her significance as a respected historical figure whilst facing the public and parading her homosexuality through lyrical poetry. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet who was born on the Island of Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630BCE and 612BCE. It is said that she died around 570BC, but very little information is known about Sappho’s life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired for its antiquity and it’s originality of the time. Sappho’s status of being an

1. The criteria for determining credible sources is taught to students in elementary school and reiterated through college. It is also available on the internet. Some questions to consider when searching for material are:

In valuing the importance of the historical past, critics often tend to separate the past from the present, when in fact the present relies so much on history. Contemporary critics tend to frame the past as a unique site of need, as if it were not motivated by the present. When looking at historical works, critics disregard the pain of the gay culture and focus on the means of securing a more positive identity of the present. At the same time, “such acts of resolve allow us to ignore the resistance of queer historical figures to our advances toward them” (34). For example, in one of Sappho’s lyrics, she promises her readers that “someone will remember us” but follows that line with “I say,” attesting to the poem’s longing and uncertainty regarding

In the novels, “Antigone”, by Sophocles and “Persepolis”, by Marjane Satrapi, it is clear that the main characters are examples of modern feminist. Both novels demonstrate how Antigone and Marji broke through the limitations that were set on each of them and have similar characteristics that define them as they broke through the limitations that were set on each of them.

The fact that Sappho choses these words rather than that of any other reveals that one of the conceptions of love is pain. In addition, the use of figurative language within the poem reveals another conception that Sappho has of love is

Sappho believed that the teacher was a mentor for girls and thought that a person needed to be educated as a whole. Sappho was said to be very cool, calm and poised which helped to influence her decision to create the first school for girls (Robbins 125). According to Thrasher (2014), she became the principal of her finishing school for girls and was apart of a “special society of girls who devoted themselves to the worship of Aphrodite and the Muses” (Life’s Work section, para. 8). Many students would attend her school and when they returned home they were said to be “cultured women” and ready to be married. In addition, Sappho taught her students many different forms of art such as poetry, music, and dancing. These teachings helped Sappho to establish the idea that in order for a person to be fully educated they had to be involved in the arts. Sappho saw mentoring as an important factor that helped teachers develop their practical teaching skills. Through her poetry, Sappho wrote from many new perspectives that helped “defined women in terms of themselves rather than in terms of men” (Murphy 19). As a result, her work influenced many women and she is considered to be the first feminist of her time.