He turned Greek verse inward twenty-seven centuries ago: the first poet on record to write almost exclusively about himself, his own feelings, his own life as the subject worth the ink.
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Some Saian mountaineerStruts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ranWhen the fighting got hot. Life seemed somehow more precious. It was a beautiful shield.
A Saian boasts about the shield which beside a bush though good armour I unwillingly left behind. I saved myself, so what do I care about the shield? To hell with it!
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield.
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Archilochus lived on Paros in the seventh century BC, somewhere around 680 to 645. While his contemporaries sang of gods and heroes, he broke the mold: he wrote about his own emotions and experiences, making himself the center of the poem. He worked in iambic meter with a flexibility no one had shown before, bending form to fit feeling. The innovation stuck. What survives of his work is fragments, but the shift he made - verse as confession, as personal record - echoes forward through every poet since who ever wrote "I."
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