Apollos Sour Love

In Apollo’s’ and Daphne’s tale we find that Apollo’s arrogance of slaying the snake, came to haunt him. “Apollo saw the boy playing with his bow and arrows; and being himself elated with his recent victory over Python, he said to him, “What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent who stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons.” [P3]In what why you may be asking? Well his heart will love someone who will never love back. How are we sure that Daphne will never love Apollo? Well it’s very simple the boy that Apollo talked to was not an ordinary boy it was cupid the good of love and he did the following “two arrows of different workmanship, one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp pointed, the latter blunt and tipped with lead. With the leaden shaft he struck the nymph Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus, and with the golden one Apollo, through the heart. Forthwith the god was seized with love for the maiden, and she abhorred the thought of loving.”[P3]
What I most liked about the story is that Apollo tells her all that he’s worth, and she still didn’t pay any attention to him, like most women today would. “I am no clown, no rude peasant. Jupiter is my father, and I am lord of Delphos and Tenedos, and know all things, present and future. I am the god of song and the lyre. My arrows fly true to the mark; but, alas! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! I am the god of medicine, and know the virtues of all healing plants. Alas! I suffer a malady that no balm can cure! The nymph continued her flight, and left his plea half uttered”[P 4-5] What I didn’t come to comprehend is the end when she turns in to a tree and Apollo tells her that, she will be his tree and more things , but at the end does she come to accept it? “The nymph, now changed into a Laurel tree, bowed its head in grateful acknowledgement.” [P5]
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Apollo and Daphne