Orpheus's music is able to charm everything including people and gods. In the poem it says, "Thus did the forest denizens though wild,/ Acknowledge music's gentle influence...Orpheus chief was pleased, the nymphs to see,/ And, fairest of them all, Eurydice." In this excerpt, Orpheus's musical influence is shown when the forest calms and the nymphs are entranced. When Orpheus goes the entrance to the Underworld, Charon tells him that he swore not to let any living being into his boat to cross the river. However, Orpheus takes begins to play music and "when Charon heard it, he plied fast his oar, / Orpheus he took on board, and pushed from shore. / Then Charon ferried him across the stream." Orpheus's music charmed Charon just as it does any living thing.
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The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus falls in love with Eurydice, who is bitten by a poisonous snake on their wedding day. Overcome with grief and desire for his wife, Orpheus travels to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice. He uses his musical gift to charm people and gods along his way to be successful. He is given permission to bring Eurydice out of the Underworld as long as she walks behind him and he doesn't look back until they're out. He can't resist temptation, glances back, and Eurydice is forever dead.
The poem is a cautionary tale about the evils of desire and temptation as the consequences of Orpheus's one look prevents Eurydice from returning.
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Subject: English
Level: High School
Course: Mythology
<h3>Keywords: </h3>
Orpheus, Eurydice, music, Underworld, Mythology
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