An image if the sculpture "Apollo of Belvedere," potentially the sculpture Loy discusses in the poem "Marble" (93). The sculpture is missing many of the fingers, reminiscent of the line "Apollo haunts Apollo/ With the shade/ of a lost hand" (15-18).
The poem is about the life of a tramp "very much in the spirit of Charlie Chaplin's tramp, who first made his screen appearance in the 1910's" (Loy 186).