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Adam Gambone Travis Brown

Song for a Forgotten Shrine to Pan – John Chipman Farrar

· Pan in Greek religion and mythology, is the companion of the nymphs, god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. · His name originates within the Greek language, from the word //paein//, meaning "to pasture". He is a faun with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a goat. · He is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. He is usually depicted with an erect phallus. · In Roman mythology, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature spirit who was the father of Bona Dea (Fauna). In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pan became a significant figure in the Romantic movement of Western Europe, and also in the 20th-century Neopagan movement. · Pan is always depicted with his signature pan pipes; he was noted musician · Pan is one of the only gods who is said to have died
 * Mythology**

· The poem is written in trochaic meter o This gives the poem a falling and tragic feel · No set rhyme scheme but there is some rhyming in the poem
 * The Poem**

· Lament for the return of Pan and all he represents; spring, rebirth, fertility, nature o “Come to me, Pan, with your wind-wild laughter, / Where have you hidden your golden reed?” o “Come to me! Come to me! God of mad music, / Come to me, child of the whispering night · Embrace and enjoy life; sex is referenced but not as a dirty, morally corrupt act o “Where are the white-footed youths and the maidens, / Garland, rosy-lipped, lyric with spring?” · Need for a companion · Embrace beauty, try to be forever young · Return to the classics; attitudes, perceptions, styles o Pan represents springtime and a rebirth o Written in the end of Victorian era where sex was a taboo topic o “Where are the voices that sang in the trees? / Beauty has fled like a wind-startled nestling,”
 * The Meaning**