passionate shepherd

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.