Analysis of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
The poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe depicts a shepherd's promises of love and affection to his beloved, inviting her to enjoy the pleasures of nature with him. The speaker describes elaborate scenes and offerings to entice his love to come live with him, expressing a pastoral and idealized view of love and nature.
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The Passionate Shepherd to his Christopher Marlowe love Structure The main idea is the shepherd s promises to show his passionate affection.
Structure Stanzas 1,2 show the speaker s hope that his woman will come and live with close nature. Stanza 3,4, 5 promises to please and persuade her. stanza 6 everybody will welcome his beloved if she accepts
Analysis The shepherd invites the woman he loves to come and live with him so they will try all pleasures offered by valleys , groves , woods , mountains. He invites her to sit upon the rocks with shallow rivers falling under their feet and see those shepherds far away feeding their sheep and hear birds singing beautifully around them. He will use roses to make her beds decorated with a thousand smelling posies to lie. He will weave a flower cap and make her kirtle fringed with myrtle leaves.
Analysis He will pull out the finest wool from their lambs to make her a pretty gown and a pair of high qualified slippers to keep her from being cold. The buckles of which are made of purest gold. He will make her a belt of straw and ivy buds with coral clasps and amber studs. If these pleasures please her , then come live with me and be my love . The young shepherds will dance and sing each May morning to delight her . If she is touched by these delights , then live with me and be my love .
Type Pastoral lyric is concerned with the simple life of country side people and described that life in an idealized and stylized terms. People in this kind of poems are usually shepherds ,fishermen or other rustics who lead an outdoor life. The world is that of simplicity , music and love .It s always spring , usually May. Nature seems
Pastoral lyric endlessly green and the future is entirely golden . Their world is free of problems. Shepherds sing instead of tending their sheep and they make love and play music. The language is informal , fairly simple although always a bit more sophisticated than that used by real shepherds with real problems.
Devices Among the devices used in the poem are : 1. Repartition : it is used widely in the poem to strengthen the shepherd s passion to his love. 2. Imagery : A. visual B. audio C. smelling
