Blog post 6

In Catullus poems, Lesbia has been mentioned a lot of times. Here we bring up with a question what is the relationship between Lesbia and Catullus? As we go through the poem written by Catullus it is easy to tell that he is in love with Lesbia who left him. Despite the fact that Lesbia left Catullus he is still in great love.

In poem 5 value the lot at no more than a farthing!” The reason why he has emphasized this way is that because Lesbia is well known to the others also, their relationship has been criticized by the people. He wanted to tell from this that he does not care what is been said about their relationship and rather he explains that there is not enough time to love why spend time to care about other people. For example, he says “for us, though, once our brief life’s quenched, there’s only one unending night that’s left to sleep through.” And then he shows his endless love towards Lesbia through “a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more, a second hundred, then yet another thousand then a hundred” showing infinite number kisses that he wants from her and yet wants more. He continues on Poem 7 expressing how much love he is into her. He saids “all those stars that in the silent night look down on the stolen loves of mortals” are the “number of times I need to kiss you, that’s what would satisfy your mad Catullus.”

However, in Poem 8, we can tell that Lesbia was not loving Catullus as much as he was into her. It says that “things that you wanted, things she didn’t quite turn down.” Catullus is acting as if he is ok with the fact that Lesbia is leaving him as “she said No, so you too, feeble wretch, say No……so goodbye, sweetheart. Now Catullus will hang tough, won’t ask, “Where is she?” won’’t, since you’ve said No.” But as the poem moves on Catullus shows that he is still in love with Lesbia and does not want her to leave him. For instance, he keeps asking “who’ll now pursue you, still admire you ro your looks? Whom will you love now?” and so on to look like he is tough and ok but really he cannot stop thinking about her.