In Ovid’s “Metamorphoses: Apollo and Daphne”, Apollo is punished by Cupid to forever chase and love Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus. Cupid may have had his reasons for punishing Apollo, but no reason was shown to why Cupid shot Daphne with an arrow, which I consider a punishment as she was always fleeing and avoiding Apollo until she later prayed to her father to destroy her beauty and she transformed into a tree for eternity. Which I also consider a more painful punishment.
In “I wish I were her Nubian maid” it seems the boy was in love with a girl, where I assume the girl did not like him back. Where he would do anything for her, like “I would see her love; each and every day” (31), but she wouldn’t do the same for him.
The same goes for Apollo in “Metamorphoses”, where he is madly in love with Daphne, but she would avoid and flee from him, like when she “pursued her fearful …show more content…
In “I wish I were her Nubian maid”, the story doesn’t end with the girl ever loving the boy. The boy says in future tense “And I would steal her heart” (31), which means that has far has the story goes she never loved him.
But in “Metamorphoses”, after Daphne transformed to a tree to destroy her beauty, she expected that Apollo will finally leave her alone. But Apollo still loved her, and adorned her with compliments and prophecies. Daphne then “shook her branches and seemed to nod her summit in assent”. Which means she finally loved him after what I believe seeing his dedication to her (Ovid 658).
In James Wyat Cook analysis of “Metamorphoses”, he mentions that “To assure that Apollo suffers, Cupid then shoots Daphne with a leaden arrow—one that prevents her also falling in love” (“Metamorphoses”). This just proves my point that Daphne was unfairly chosen and was forced to deny Apollo love. Which later led to her praying for her beauty to be destroyed and then her turning into a
In “I wish I were her Nubian maid” it seems the boy was in love with a girl, where I assume the girl did not like him back. Where he would do anything for her, like “I would see her love; each and every day” (31), but she wouldn’t do the same for him.
The same goes for Apollo in “Metamorphoses”, where he is madly in love with Daphne, but she would avoid and flee from him, like when she “pursued her fearful …show more content…
In “I wish I were her Nubian maid”, the story doesn’t end with the girl ever loving the boy. The boy says in future tense “And I would steal her heart” (31), which means that has far has the story goes she never loved him.
But in “Metamorphoses”, after Daphne transformed to a tree to destroy her beauty, she expected that Apollo will finally leave her alone. But Apollo still loved her, and adorned her with compliments and prophecies. Daphne then “shook her branches and seemed to nod her summit in assent”. Which means she finally loved him after what I believe seeing his dedication to her (Ovid 658).
In James Wyat Cook analysis of “Metamorphoses”, he mentions that “To assure that Apollo suffers, Cupid then shoots Daphne with a leaden arrow—one that prevents her also falling in love” (“Metamorphoses”). This just proves my point that Daphne was unfairly chosen and was forced to deny Apollo love. Which later led to her praying for her beauty to be destroyed and then her turning into a