The Passionate Shepherd To His
LoveBy: Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd To His
Love is an example of a
pastoral poem.
Pastoral
Poem
a poetic kind that concerns
itself with simple life of country folk
and describes that life in stylized, idealized terms.
Pastoral
Poem
Characters are
shepherds or eople
involved in tending to
basic human needs in a simplified society.
Pastoral
Poem
the language of pastoral is informal and fairly simple,
although always a bit
more sophisticated than that of
real shepherds
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Grove a small group of
trees
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Madrigal
a song for several singers, usually without musical
instruments
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Posya small bunch
of flowers
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Kirtle
to decorate fabric with a pattern of stitches usually using
colored thread
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Myrtle
a bush with shiny
leaves, pink or white
flowers and bluish-black
berries
the tree of
Aphrodite
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Amber
a hard transparent
yellowish-brown substance formed in
ancient times from the liquid
of trees
WORDS DEFINED THE PASTORAL WAY
Swaina young
man who is in love
Ivy buds
an evergreen plant that
grows up walls or along the
ground
POETIC STRUCTURE:MAIN IDEA
SHEPHERD HIS PROMISES
LOVE AND AFFECTION
FOR AN UNDESCRIBED
WOMAN
The poem is divided into three parts:
Stanza 1~Stanza 2
The speaker hopes his love to live with him and enjoy the
beauty of the nature.
The poem is divided into three parts:
Stanza 3-Stanza 5
The speaker makes many things to
please and persuade his love.
The poem is divided into three parts:
Stanza 6
The speaker presents one last imagery—that of young men singing and dancing in love if the lady accepts his
proposal.
WHO IS THE
SPEAKER IN THE POEM?
Work in pairs and look for
characteristics of the shepherd
based from the poem’s context.
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