Archaic Torso of Apollo Themes

First and foremost, before all its deep metaphysical and aesthetic questions really hit home, "Archaic Torso of Apollo" is a poem about how awesome and amazing art is. The speaker is dazzled, awest...

Hmm, spirituality. Given the fact that this poem's title invokes a god (Apollo), you may think that we're about to go off on some weird tangent about how we should all be worshipping the Greek pant...

This poem's title—"Archaic Torso of Apollo"—has "Art and Culture" written all over it. We can guess from this short, descriptive phrase that the poem will involve a piece of ancient Greek sculp...

Identity is in flux in "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (see our "Speaker" section for more on that), and not just in terms of the "characters" we find here. In fact, there really aren't any clear identit...