Comparing Love Lyrics
Both Sappho and Catullus express their feelings of love, or lust as the fact may be, through their poetry. ... It is presumed that the woman that he is admiring is Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, due to the biography I read of his life. ... Catullus’ poem entitled “I Hate Her and I Love Her” is pretty self-explanatory. ... He states that it “hurts” him to both love and hate this woman, but it seems reasonable enough to me.