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        <title><![CDATA[The passonate shepherd presents the ideal of Romantic love.  The images...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The passonate shepherd presents the ideal of Romantic love.  The images are soft and mostly from nature (myrtle, flowers, roses, poises etc).  The Nymph's reply presents a more real side of love.  It makes the case that this would be nice IF the events and objects in the poem would last forever ... but they do not.  But could youth last and love still breed,  Had joys no date nor age no needBut the fact is that youth nor any of the joys...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:38:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Comparison the structure of &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to His...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Comparison the structure of &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to His Love&quot; and &quot;Nymph's Reply&quot;?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are only 6 stanzas in &quot;The Passionate Shepher to His...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are only 6 stanzas in &quot;The Passionate Shepher to His Love&quot; by Christopher Marlowe.  If you mean the 6th stanza, Marlowe presents an idealized pastoral world full of romance without the harsh realities of life for a shepherd. &quot;The shepherd swains shall dance and sing / For thy delight each May morning.&quot;  The shepherd would need to tend his flock, ward off predators, and would not have time for dancing.  This poem is a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:20:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe's (1564-1593)  pastoral love lyric &quot;The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe's (1564-1593)  pastoral love lyric &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to his Love&quot; is believed to have been written in 1588 when he was a student at Cambridge. It was published posthmously in 1599.The poem is the  appeal of a young shepherd to his beloved lady love &quot;to come and live with him.&quot; It is not a marriage proposal but only a 'live-in' arrangement.The tone of the poem is both idealistic and idyllic. The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:05:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the literal meaning of the 7th stanza of the poem &quot;The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the literal meaning of the 7th stanza of the poem &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to his Love?&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:42:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This poem is in the category of Pastorals, which Renaissance poets like...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This poem is in the category of Pastorals, which Renaissance poets like Marlowe wrote to convey their thoughts and feelings about love and other subjects. Pastorals contain idealized, rural settings (&quot;...and we sit upon the rocks, seeing the shepherds feed their flocks.&quot;) In &quot;The Passionate Shepherd&quot; the speaker is the shepherd himself, and he is trying to woo an un-named love interest by tempting her with bunches of fancy...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:42:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The speaker in this poem is an unnamed shepherd who promises to do all...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The speaker in this poem is an unnamed shepherd who promises to do all kinds of improbable things if only the object of his affections will accept his entreaties.  The poem is passionate, but does not necessarily address true love or commitment - there is no mention of marriage, nor of plans for the future.  The shepherd seems only to be asking the his lady to come come live with him and to enjoy the pleasures of the moment.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:03:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is the speaker of the poem &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to His...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is the speaker of the poem &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to His Love&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:08:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Marlowe's poem is an idealized version of domesticity.  He is using the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Marlowe's poem is an idealized version of domesticity.  He is using the beauty of nature to encourage a young woman to live with him and to be his lover.  By using nature, Marlowe is asserting that this action is a natural thing, and is glorifying the sexual relationship as he glorifies the season and the natural surroundings.  Marlowe is offering a relationship to this woman, and encouraging her in the language of romance.  Although the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:53:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare &quot;To His Coy Mistress&quot; and &quot;The Passionate Shepard...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Compare &quot;To His Coy Mistress&quot; and &quot;The Passionate Shepard to His Love.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:25:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If you look at the images in the poem, they are very reminiscent of a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you look at the images in the poem, they are very reminiscent of a pastorial painting.  He describes &quot;hills and valleys&quot; and &quot;dale and field&quot; in a way that brings to mind the pastoral art such as “Landscape with Polyphemus” by Nicolas Poussin or &quot;Landscape with Apollo and Mercury&quot; by Claude Lorrain.  And this attempt to create a visual is continued by the very visual elements in the poem.  He describes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:45:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what ways does the poem, &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to His...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what ways does the poem, &quot;The Passionate Shepherd to His Love&quot; draw attention to itself as a work of art? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:50:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The shepherd was proposing a passionate love affair to the nymph. He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The shepherd was proposing a passionate love affair to the nymph. He does not mention a long term relationship or marriage, though. The shepherd promises the nymph that he will shower her with all his attention, and says he will get others to watch over his sheep so that he can spend his time with her. He also promises that they will enjoy the most breathtaking scenery, which is a common theme in pastoral poetry, such as greenery and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:43:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was the shepherd proposing to the nymph?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was the shepherd proposing to the nymph?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:38:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He promises her all things that are temporary.  The things he offers...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He promises her all things that are temporary.  The things he offers are of Spring and Summer only--all things that will wilt, die, fall apart.  Like the &quot;come live with me and be my love&quot; says nothing of permant commitment, he offers nothing of substance.  It is no wonder that in her reply she denies his advances.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:33:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The poem is meant to persuade a woman to enter into a sexual affair....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The poem is meant to persuade a woman to enter into a sexual affair. There is no talk of eternal love or marriage, merely the request to &quot;come live with me, be my love.&quot; The poet promises her the ultimate pleasures, which appear to be sexual in nature. The settings that he describesare meant to appeal to her sense of beauty-most are out of doors, green fields and flowers.The poet promises her his undivided attention, as well. He says...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:48:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What kind of message did the poet aim to convey?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What kind of message did the poet aim to convey?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:01:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No, both of these poems are not sonnets. First of all, both poems are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No, both of these poems are not sonnets. First of all, both poems are more than fourteen lines long. Second of all, they do not follow the regular rhyme pattern of either Italian or English sonnets.

The Passinate Shepherd to his Love is a pastoral poem, which means relating to or being a literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way. To sum this poem up, it's a shepherd who's looking for a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 02:00:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are these two poems sonnets? Why or why not?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are these two poems sonnets? Why or why not?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 01:25:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The speaker promises her everything her heart could ever desire.  I have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The speaker promises her everything her heart could ever desire.  I have copied the poem here, and my analysis appears in brackets every few lines as necessary.

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove

(He promises her "all the pleasures"  not only be promised, but realized, "proved".)

That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields. 
And we will sit upon rocks,
Seeing the shepherds...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 11:25:46 PST</pubDate>
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