# Pan — Poetry character guide

> Pan in Poetry by Oscar Wilde.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** old Pan, Great Pan

**First appearance:** 0124-pan

## Who they are

The Greek god of the wild, shepherds, and rustic music.

## Relationships

### [Young Hylas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/characters/young_hylas)

_romantic_

Pan pursues the beautiful youth Hylas with amorous intent, a classic mythic seduction.

## In the story

### [Ravenna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/ravenna)

The poet hopes to see goat-foot Pan making merry minstrelsy amid the reeds in the forest.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/v)

Imagined as a goat-footed god making minstrelsy among the reeds.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/i)

The cave of Pan is passed by Charmides as he flees; Pan is heard snoring.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/ii)

Pan is mentioned as a potential seneschal for the Dryads, and as a figure in the pastoral setting.

### [Santa Decca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/santa-decca)

Pan is declared dead, and his wanton haunts are no more.

### [Impressions de Théâtre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/impressions-de-th-tre)

Referenced as 'Goat-foot Pan' in the Phèdre poem, associated with piping and reeds.

### [Phèdre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/ph-dre)

Referenced as Goat-foot Pan with his shrill piping.

### [Canzonet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/canzonet)

Invoked as absent, no longer present in the landscape.

### [Pan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/pan)

Invoked as the goat-foot God of Arcady, representing the lost vitality and wildness of the ancient world.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/i)

Addressed as the goat-foot God of Arcady, symbolizing the lost pastoral and mythological vitality.

## Links

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