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Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Even though pastoral poetry has come to mean any poetry that deals with the simplicity of life past life in contrast to the terrible present. Also known as "the idyll," "the eclogue," and "bucolic poetry," the pastoral is a poem which idealises the peaceful and simple ....
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.... shepherds remain first and foremost emblem of humanity, a general rather than a specific type and his afflictions and joys are universal.
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is an example of classical pastoral although it present a very ambiguous situation. Even though the shepherd lives in a world of natural simplicity in which he describes the hills, the fields, the mountain, the flocks of sheep and the river. His speech is not simple. He made sure the rhyme and the rhythm were perfect. The birds don’t chirp or sing like any other bird but t ....
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