Idk, I read Daphne as the one who wins this. She turns into a laurel and he's left hugging bark, which is pretty much what she warned him would happen.
Apollo and Daphne
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Idk, I read Daphne as the one who wins this. She turns into a laurel and he's left hugging bark, which is pretty much what she warned him would happen.
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The woods are in bloom this morning, the water runs blue and crystalline.
A revenge of Eros upon Apollo: two arrows, one golden and one of lead.
The revenge became a curse. Daphne was struck by an arrow of lead. Her decline began here.
Apollo was possessed, passionate and blind for Daphne.
Daphne repudiated him, she was tormented, in panic. But the love and madness that affected Apollo were massive, as crazy as the god Pan, that is how Apollo found himself.
The woods fell silent, the river stopped flowing, everything became a hunt between predator and prey.
"Catch me if you can, you will not have me completely" — said Daphne.
A sickly hunt, brought on by a curse of love, Apollo pursued her constantly.
Before catching her, Daphne begged her father to become a laurel.
The wish was fulfilled. The first touch of Apollo upon Daphne's body made her enter metamorphosis. A laurel of the woods.
Daphne was no longer human, only a laurel. Apollo, blind with love, embraced her anyway.
For he knew that all his intentions had failed.
A revenge of Eros upon Apollo: two arrows, one golden and one of lead.
Apollo tried, but failed.
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Idk, I read Daphne as the one who wins this. She turns into a laurel and he's left hugging bark, which is pretty much what she warned him would happen.
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The two arrows coming back at the end make Eros the only one who came out ahead. Apollo spent everything he had and walked away holding a tree.
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The woods are in bloom this morning, the water runs blue and crystalline.