In a predominantly male society, such active verse was often preferred to the soft lines associated with lyrical poetry. ... The lyrics of ancient Greek poet Sappho, whose work is classified within the Archaic and Classical periods, delve into soft and intimate contexts that are driven "by a human voice, a woman's voice speaking to the concerns of her daily life, a solitary daring to posit the notion that ordinary experience of human love is imbued with significance as worthy of attention as all the martial splendors of Homerica" (Santos 20). ...

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We can hear a different voice to the first stanza in the diction of the yarner who narrates his story in the first person and animates it with his own comments on the characters: "I give him a wink" and "he went like a luny". ... Wright is not just an observer but an active participant in the spiritual communion offered by the land ("I drink you with my sight/ and I am filled with fire....

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