The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

• IntroductionAuthor
• Read the poem
• Paraphrase
• Pastoral poem
• Vocabulary
• Diction
• Structure analysis
• Imagery
• Speaker, listener
• Tone
• Conclusion
• Reflection

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

• Christopher Marlowe

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The Author

• Christopher Marlowe
• 15641593 (about 29 years old)
• He was an English dramatist and poet. Probably
  the greatest English dramatist before
  Shakespeare.
• Education Marlowe was educated at Cambridge and
  he went to London in 1587, where he became an
  actor and dramatist for the Lord Admiral's
  Company.
• Plays His most important plays are the two parts
  of Tamburlaine the Great (c. 1587), Dr. Faustus
  (c. 1588), The Jew of Malta (c. 1589), and Edward
  II (c. 1592).
• Marlowe's dramas his dreams have heroic themes,
  usually centering on a great personality who is
  destroyed by his own passion and ambition.
• The use of the language The poetic beauty and
  dignity of his language raise them to the level
  of high art.
• Marlowe death In 1593, Marlowe was stabbed in a
  barroom brawl by a drinking companion.

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Paraphrase

• Come live with me and be my love. We will
  try all the pleasure offered by valleys, roves,
  woods and mountains.
• I want us to sit upon the rocks with
  shallow rivers falling under our feet, seeing
  those shepherds far away feeding their sheep, and
  hearing birds sing beautifully around us.
• And I will use roses to make beds decorated
  with a thousand sweet-smelling posies for you to
  lie. I will weave a flower cap, and make you
  kirtle fringed with myrtle leaves.

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• We pull out of the finest wool from our
  lambs to make a pretty gown. And a pair of
  high-qualited slippers will be made for you, to
  keep you from being cold. On the slippers I will
  put buckles, which was made of purest gold.
• Also, I will make you a belt of straw and
  ivy buds with coral clasps and amber studs. If
  these pleasure may touch your heart, come live
  with me and be my love.
• The young shepherd shall dance and sing in
  each May morning to delight you, and if you may
  be touched by these delights, then live with me
  and be my love.

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Pastoral Poem

• Definition
• a poetic kind that concerns itself with simple
  life of country folk and describes that life in
  stylized, idealized terms.
• Characteristics
• 1)The people in the pastoral poem are usually
  shepherds, although they maybe be fishermen or
  other rustics who lead an outdoor life and are
  involved in tending to basic human needs in a
  simplified society.

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• 2) The world of the poem is one of simplicity,
  music, and love. The world is always spring,
  usually May. Nature seems endlessly green and the
  future entirely golden. Difficulty, frustration,
  disappointment, and obligation do not belong in
  this world at all it is blissfully free of
  problems.
• 3) Shepherds sing instead of tending sheep, and
  they make love and play music instead of having
  to watch out for wolves in the night.
• 4) Besides, the language of pastoral is informal
  and fairly simple, although always a bit more
  sophisticated than that of real shepherds with
  real problems and real sheep.

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Vocabularypastoral description

• Grove (n.)-a small group of trees. Ex a grove of
  birch trees
• Madrigal / mædrgl/ (n.) a song for several
  singers, usually without musical instruments,
  popular in the 16th century
• Posy (n.)- a small bunch of flowers
• Kirtle (n.)-to decorate fabric with a pattern of
  stitches usually using colored thread Ex an
  embroidered blouse
• Shepherd (n.) - a person whose job is to take
  care of sheep.
• Myrtle / m3 tl AmE m3 rtl/ noun U, C a bush
  with shiny leaves, pink or white flowers and
  bluish-black berries

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• Lined (n.) -(of clothes) having a lining (a layer
  of material used to cover the inside surface of
  sth. a pair of leather gloves with fur linings )
  inside them. Ex a lined skirt
• Buckle-(n.) a piece of metal or plastic used for
  joining the ends of a belt or for fastening a
  strap on a bag, shoe, etc
• Bud (PLANT PART) noun C-a small part of a
  plant, that develops into a flower or leaf
• Coral (n.) U- a rock-like substance, formed in
  the sea by groups of particular types of small
  animal, that is often used in jewelry
• Clasp (v.) T - to hold someone or something
  firmly in your hands or arms

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• Amber (n.)- a hard transparent yellowish-brown
  substance which was formed in ancient times from
  the liquid of trees and is used in jewellery
• Stud (JEWELLERY ) (n.)- Ca small piece of
  metal jewellery that is put through a part of
  your body such as your ear or nose
• Swain (n.)- youths

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Diction
  Roses, flowers, leaves, lambs, straw, ivy,
coral (stanza 35) 1.) The poet uses these
words to describe the pleasant environment and
the happiness of the shepherd. 2.) These words
which the poet chooses here are all related to
natural things and this is also the style of
pastoral poems. ? Besides, there are two words
Prove(line 2) and Kirtle(line 11) that the poet
chooses instead of Try and Gown in order to rhyme
with Love(line 1) and Myrtle(line 12).
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Structure

• Main Idea
• The shepherd makes a lot of things to send
  his love and in order to show his passionate
  affection.
• The poem is divided into three parts
• ?.stanza 1stanza2
• The speaker hopes his love to live with him
  and enjoy the beauty of the nature.
• ?.stanza 3stanza 5
• The speaker makes many things to please and
  persuade his love.
• ?.stanza 6
• The speaker says that everybody welcome
  his love if she comes to live with him.

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• Rhyme
• The poem has a special term of rhyme. Every
  two lines the rhyme is the same.
• Repetition
• Come live with me and be my love (shown on
  stanza 1, 5, and 6, line 1)
• The repetition of the sentences strengthens
  his passion to his love. In readers part, we
  can understand speakers intention much more
  clearly

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Imagery--Functions

• visual image
• 1.sit upon the rocks...
• 2.seeing the shepherds feed their flocks by
  shallow rivers
• 3.The shepherd swains shall dance and sing.
• audio image
• melodious birds sing madrigals
• Smell image
• a thousand fragrant posies

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The Speaker Listener

• The speaker the passionate shepherd
• The shepherds personality
• 1)sincere
• He makes many things such as beds of roses,
  fragrant posies,flower cap,kirtle,gown,slippers(sh
  own at stanza 2 and 3) to show his sincerity for
  his love to the lady.
• 2)rich
• He is not an ordinary shepherd, instead, a
  rich shepherd. We can find evidence at the
  bottom of stanza 4 Fair lined slippers for the
  cold, with buckles of the purest gold.

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Tone

• Sincere
• In stanza 35, the shepherd gives the one he
  adores lots of things which are made by the
  shepherd, himself such as beds of roses, fragrant
  posies, a cap of flowers and a gown, slippers and
  a belt, and so on in order to show his sincerity
  to his love.
• Passionate
• The shepherd repeats the sentence Come live
  with me and be my love three times (stanza 1, 5,
  6) with a view to expressing his passion and
  affections to his love.

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The speakerlistener(continued)

• The Listener whom the shepherd loves.
• The ladys personality
• Nature-loving tired of city life
• The shepherd offered natural scenery such as
  valleys, groves, hills, fields, woods, steep
  mountains (stanza 1,) rocks, and rivers (stanza
  2) to persuade the lady to come live with him.
  Our group thinks that if the lady accept the
  shepherd, she may be nature loving or tired of
  noisy city life. So that she can get away with
  those troublesome stuffs and really relax and
  enjoy her peaceful life with the shepherd.

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Comparison between M R

• 1.IntroductionCome live with me
• 2.We will see flocks, hear birds sing
• 3.Beds of roses, cap of flowers etc.
• 4.Gown, slippers
• 5.Belt, coral clasps, buckle
• 6. Conclusion-- Come live with me

• 1.NO, only if,.
• 2.Winter drives the flocks away, birds dumb
• 3.Flowers fade
• 4.Gown, shoes, belt, cap, kirtle, posies wither
• 5.They can not move me
• 6.If love/joy lasts forever, yes, but

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Conclusion

• Through this poem, we can understand more about
  the pastoral poem. The characteristics of
  pastoral poem are unrealistic and fanciful, and
  the main characters mentioned in this kind of
  poem are usually shepherds, sometimes fishermen.
  Also, the content of pastoral poem are mostly
  related to nature and we can find the evidences
  of this kind of style (such as valleys, groves,
  hills, fields, wood, and steepy mountain yields
  in the 1st stanza rocks, flocks, rivers and
  birds in the 2nd stanza).

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• However, most parts in the poem are related
  to the descriptions of the nature, but somehow we
  readers can enjoy the poem by understanding the
  deep affection the shepherd wants to show.
  Compared with the poem. To His Coy Mistress,
  people in 17th century are much opener and they
  show their affection more directly. From this
  poem, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, we
  can understand the attitude of people in 16th
  century express their love with a gentle and
  sincere tone.

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Thanks for your attention!
Thanks for Alice to provide the pictures of
myrtle and clasps.
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The Myrtle

• Various plants of the family Myrtaceae a
  European shrub having ovate or lanceolate
  evergreen leaves and solitary axillary white or
  rosy flowers followed by black berries

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Clasps Tendrils

• A portion or the whole of a leaf, stipule, or
  stem that is modified into a slender spirally
  coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a plant
  (as a peavine or grapevine) to its support and to
  assist it in climbing