A Comparison And Contrast Of Love In Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" And C. Day Lewis's "Song"
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A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate
Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"
In the poems "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher
Marlowe and "Song" by C. Day Lewis, the speakers display their individual views
of what can be expected with t ....
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.... speaker, these differing methods can be understood.
The "Passionate Shepherd" is set in a romantic, natural backdrop in the
seventeenth century. In this rural setting the Shepherd displays his flock and
pastures to his love while promising her garlands and wool for weaving. Many
material goods are offered by the speaker to the woman he loves in hopes of
receiving her love in return. He also utilizes the power of speech to attempt
to gain the will of his love. In contrast, the poem "Song" i ....
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