“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” is certainly a very simple and happy love poem centered on the gifts the narrator is willing to give his love if she were to come and stay with him. I think part of the reason this particular poem is so inviting and calming is because of the pastoral images and diction used by the author. Even materialistic objects are related and combined with natural elements. The narrator mentions “a gown made of the finest wool” (13), “a cap of flowers and a kirtle / Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle” (11-12), and “a belt of straw and ivy buds” (17). All of these images, the inviting and happy tone, and even the very simple rhyme scheme combine to create a typical love poem. Almost like one someone would find on
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The tone that is used by this narrator is very arrogant and overconfident. The narrator recognizes what Marlowe was attempting to express but eventually puts him to shame by saying none of those objects of affection have any lasting effects. Or in other words, they are just going to wither away and die eventually so there is no point in giving them to me, the nymph. This is expressed when the narrator mentions, “thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, / thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies / soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten” (13-15). The nymph even goes as far to say, “all these in me not means can move to come to thee and be thy love” (19-20). The nymph has no care for all of those objects, but would rather simply own the shepherd’s love. This is very reflective of Ralegh’s typical love poems that centered on his desire to rise above the normal and create his own twist/interpretation on how a love poem should be. The response does still incorporate many of the same images as before, but now they are seen as imperfect and wilted or weakened. Overall, what Ralegh seems to be communicating through this poem is the importance of not relying simply on material objects, but rather the importance of one’s true
The tone that is used by this narrator is very arrogant and overconfident. The narrator recognizes what Marlowe was attempting to express but eventually puts him to shame by saying none of those objects of affection have any lasting effects. Or in other words, they are just going to wither away and die eventually so there is no point in giving them to me, the nymph. This is expressed when the narrator mentions, “thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, / thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies / soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten” (13-15). The nymph even goes as far to say, “all these in me not means can move to come to thee and be thy love” (19-20). The nymph has no care for all of those objects, but would rather simply own the shepherd’s love. This is very reflective of Ralegh’s typical love poems that centered on his desire to rise above the normal and create his own twist/interpretation on how a love poem should be. The response does still incorporate many of the same images as before, but now they are seen as imperfect and wilted or weakened. Overall, what Ralegh seems to be communicating through this poem is the importance of not relying simply on material objects, but rather the importance of one’s true