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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. By Christopher Marlowe. Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls.
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‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ by Christopher Marlowedescribes the life that a shepherd wishes to create for his lover if she agrees to come and live with him. The poem begins with the speakerasking his lover to come and be with him forever. If she does this simple thing, they will be able to experience all the joy that the world has to offe...
In ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love‘, Christopher Marlowe employs iambic tetrameter, a rhythmic pattern of four iambs per line, giving the poem a melodious and inviting quality. This meter differs from the more solemn iambic pentameter, which he uses in his plays, signaling a deliberate choice for a lighter, more playful tone in this pastoral p...
Stanza One
The speaker of this poem, the “Passionate Shepherd,” begins by making the one request of his lover that serves as the basis for the rest of the poem. He at once lives up to his name as he asks his unnamed lover to “Come live with me.” He is hoping that she, upon hearing his request, will leave whatever life she is living behind, and come and “be [his] love” wherever he may be. He does not leave her without some idea of what it will be like to live with him, in fact, he spends the majority of...
Stanza Two
In the second stanza of ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’, the speaker goes on to describe some day-to-day details of what their lives would be like together. He states that they will “sit upon the Rocks” of this new and beautiful world they are living in together and “See” the “Shepherds” with their flocks of sheep. They will observe the world that they used to live in and appreciate its intricacies. Due to the fact that their lives are now devoted to one another and to the world they in...
Stanza Three
The shepherd still has a number of different enticements to offer his lover in the hope that she will join him. He describes how he will “make [her] a bed of Roses.” He will fill her life with flowers by creating for her a “kirtle” or an outer gown, and a “cap,” which will all be “Embroidered…with the leaves of Myrtle,” a common flowering shrub.
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Presumed portrait of the poet Christopher Marlowe whilst a student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1585. " The Passionate Shepherd to His Love " (1599), by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603).
Summary & Analysis. Though Christopher Marlowe likely wrote “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” in the early 1590s, it first appeared in print around 1600. This is a lyric poem that draws on the Classical tradition of pastoral poetry, which is a genre that takes place in a highly idealized country landscape.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls. Melodious birds sing Madrigals.
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE. Come live with mee, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Vallies, groves, hills and fieldes, Woods, or steepie mountaine yeeldes. And wee will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Sheepheards feede theyr flocks, By shallow Rivers, to whose falls, Melodious byrds sing Madrigalls.
