Pan’s character in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem A Musical Instrument has a much correlation with that of the Greek god Pan. Their physical appearance nature and characteristic were very similar, and they even had a great love for music too. This mythological figure got its revival further in 1880 where he continued to be the god of forest nature and woods. He is depicted as the symbol of energy sometimes frightening and possessing a great force of entertaining nature.
Since Pan ruled over the shepherd’s hunters and rural areas his worship is basically focused on nature and its species. He was associated with the deities of the forest and he dwelled with them in the woods. Because of his inclination and association with forest and nature, his structure was that of a man and an animal in combination. He is associated with nature pasturelands and wooded areas from which his name is derived.
The poem starts with the focus on the destruction which the god of the forest Pan has been spreading across. Being the deity of the forest himself he creates a form of turbulence all around the river and the forest. The significance of the river is seen in the poem too which reflects the ups and downs. The poem focuses on the subject that though there are beauty and love all around still there lies pain and destruction in the situation.
Though the character Pan possessed a love for nature and animals still sometimes become a source of destruction when it ran into a panic. Irrespective of being a God, a human we all possess the power to create beauty and destroy both
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