E Pound: The Girl

The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast -
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.

Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.
A child - so high - you are,
And all this is folly to the world.

See: https://soundarya.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-girl-a-poem-by-ezra-pound/ 

The poem is based upon the theme of the myth of Daphne and Apollo .Apollo the sun-god pursues the beautiful Daphne,the daughter of the river-god and Daphne is transformed into a tree in order for her to escape Apollo’s  sexual advances.

The first part is what Daphne speaks as she watches the process of her own transformation. The second part is Apollo witnessing the process. 

In Greek mythology.  it is the story of Daphne and Apollo. Apollo loved Daphne and Daphne detested him.  Apollo pursued relentlessly Daphne.  She begged her father to change her so that Apollo would not recognize or want her.  Her father agreed and slowly Daphne's appearance began to alter.  Her skin turned to bark, her hair became leaves, her arms were transformed into branches, and feet became rooted to the ground.  Apollo embraced the branches, but alas the branches shrank away from him.  Apollo vowed to tend Daphne as his tree.  He promised her leaves would decorate the heads of leaders.  Using  his powers of eternal youth and immortality, he rendered her tree green forever.