A Girl, Ezra Pound, Summary, Analysis and Mythological Background

A Girl, Ezra Pound, Summary, Analysis and Mythological Background

A Girl by Ezra Pound: Text of Poem The tree has entered my hands,  The sap has ascended my arms,  The tree has grown in my breast-  Downward,  The branches grow out of me, like arms.   Tree you are,  Moss you are,  You are violets with wind above them.  A child - so high - you are,  And all this is folly to the world. Summary in Mythological Background According to the myth, Apollo the god of archery, the sun god killed a monster snake named the Python, and became arrogant. Eros (known as "cupid" in Roman mythology) who is known as winged god of love (often depicted in valentine's day cards nowadays, as a winged boy with arrow) was made fun of by Apollo. As mentioned in Ovid's metamorphoses. “Impudent boy, what are you doing with a man’s weapons?” Apollo thought Eros was stealing his glory by making people fall in love with his bow and arrow. Perhaps, people considered Eros better at Archery than Apollo. “I can hit wild beasts of a certainty, and wound my enemies, and no…