Pan, Echo, and the Satyr by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pan loves Echo, Echo loves the Satyr, and the Satyr loves Lyda; unreturned love consumes the three. Justice makes each suffer the rejection they inflict. The speaker warns those who do not love to consider this example lest they receive similar rejection when they love.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Mythological Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Fable · 163 words
First lines
From the Greek of Moschus
Pan loved his neighbour Echo-but that child / Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping; / The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild / The bright nymph Lyda,-and so three went weeping. / As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr, / The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them. - / And thus to each-which was a woful matter- / To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them; / For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover, / Each, loving, so was hated. -Ye that love not / Be warned-in thought turn this example over, / That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.
Genres
- Mythological Poetry — The text retells a specific myth involving Pan, Echo, and the Satyr using verse structure and classical allusion.
- Romantic Poetry — The poem employs Romantic stylistic features such as 'wasting madness wild' and focuses on intense emotional states and nature spirits.
- Fable — The narrative concludes with a direct moral warning to the reader about the consequences of unrequited love.
Tags
mythology · unrequited love · rejection · justice · fable · moral poetry
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Mythological Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Fable
- Length: 163 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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