Who is Cupid from She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems and what is their importance?

Although not mentioned by name, the arrows of Cupid play a large part in these poems. If cupidity is thought of as not just sexual passion but other forms of attachment for friends, children and animals, the scope of love becomes apparent. There is not only love of others but love of self, love of possessions and love of ideas or beliefs. Inevitably, poems for women involve every sort of love and attachment demonstrating that one can fall in love with someone of either sex, with one's own child, with music and with ideas. "Falling" in this context implies a loss of control, a surge of emotion that is intoxicating.