Comparing Ovid's Apollo And Daphne In The Metamorphoses

During an attempt to describe the complex and difficult task of translating, Tim Parks once said, “He sets out to rewrite this impossibly complex thing in his own language, re-elaborating everything, changing everything in order that it remain the same, or as close as possible to his experience of the original.” The experience Parks speaks of is ultimately different for every person who attempts to recreate or translate a work of literature. This explains why there are sometimes several different versions of the same story. Charles Martin and Gianlorenzo Bernini have their own original experience and interpretation of Ovid’s “Apollo and Daphne” in The Metamorphoses. Their translations contain several similarities and differences which can make