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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