Analysis Of Poem "the Passionate Shepherd To His Love"

The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveDreams, fantasies, imaginations and more are always part of being in love. We tend to make too much promises to our partners, some are realistic but some are too delusional. Just like what the Shepherd do in the poem entitled “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, written by Christopher Marlowe and was published in 1599, six years after Marlowe died. This poem is known for being one of the best-known love poems in the English language, it is also considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. The poem started with a romantic line, “Come live with me, and be my love”. In this poem, the speaker is a loving shepherd who tries to persuade his beloved to be his wife or lover. The first stanza continues by describing the setting. He then makes promises to her in the next stanza, “And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks”, saying these lines that will surely attracts her beloved. The poem continues with the shepherd’s future gifts that he will give to his lover; such as “And