The Passionate Shepherd and His Love : Poem Review

The Passionate Shepherd and His Love

Come live with me and be my love

And we will all the pleasure prove

That hills, and valleys, dale, and field

And all the craggy mountains yield

            There we will sit upon the rocks

            And see the shepherd feed their flocks

            By shallow rivers, to whose falls

            Melodius birds sing madrigals

There will I make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies

A cap of flowers, and kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves a mirtle

            A gown made of the finest wool

            Which from our pletty lambs we pull

            Fair lined slippers for the cold

            With buckle of the forrest gold

A belt of strow and my ivy buds

With coral clasps and amber studs

And if these pleasures and my thee move

Come live with me and be my love

            Thy silver dishes for thy meat

            As precious as gods to eat

            Shall on an ivory table be

            Prepared each day for thee and me

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each may morning

If these delights thy mind my love

Then live with me and be my love

This poem was written by Christopher Marlowe in 1875. It is a romantic poem expressing and proving feeling through beautiful words. The beautiful words are used to make the poem interesting and full of meaning to read. Each stanza has many kinds beautiful words and a bit of sense devices like simile that Christopher Marlowe uses to make the readers amazed and satisfied enjoying his poem. When the readers read this poem, there are some words which maybe not everyone knows about the meaning. These are the list of the glossaries.                                                                  

The general meaning of this poem tells about a man who has desired offering his love to someone which is as beautiful views. In the first stanza, the poet tells about the offers of love of a man toward a woman who he loves with happiness. It means that the man offers the woman to live with him, build a relationship with him, and be his wife. The man wants to prove his love with describing of hills, valleys, dale, and field.

In the second stanza, the man explains the woman about the beautiful scenery and bird singing. Where the man tells that they sit on the stones while seeing the shepherd give a feed his pet. There is also the shallow river and the bird singing with full of happiness. In the third stanza, the man offers again a beautiful house for the woman with a comfortable and good aroma from the flowers. In this stanza, the man promises to the woman to make a beautiful path with flowers and comfortable condition. He will give the woman a hat which is made from flowers and also jacket that is embroidered from leaves.

In the forth stanza, the man wants to give the woman good clothes. He prepares a gown from the most beautiful wool that is made from a health and beautiful lambs. Besides that, he wants to give slippers for the cold weather later. Next, in the fifth stanza, the man keeps on explaining his real love for the woman, he also offers the woman to live with him. He will make a belt from the straw and from the ivy flowers. Beautiful jewelry also is given by him to the woman that is made from amber studs. The man says that if all of these happiness’s will change the woman’s mind to live with him, so the woman will be his love.

In the sixth stanza, this part is the explanation of bid that the woman’s food will be fulfilled with the beautiful serving on it by the man. He offers the woman with a lot of food where the food served on the silver plate as good as the God’s eating. There is simile in this part like when the man said that the woman’s food will be served on the silver plate AS GOOD AS the God’s eating. He also says that the plate will be served on the ivory table. The last stanza tells about the last offer of the man if with all of these happiness’s the woman will love him, she will change her mind to love him so the woman should live with him and be his wife. There are the lovers of the shepherd who entertains the woman with dancing and singing to make the woman happy each morning in May.

Finally, the conclusion of this poem is give information about a man’s feeling which has sincere love to a woman with offers enjoyments and happiness for woman’s live. And if the woman wants to change her mind to love the man, she should build relationship with him and be his wife. It means that the information is about how deep is man’s heart for woman he loves that makes him wants to do anything for his woman.  C. Marlowe wrote this poem to shows that love is not always about money, throne, and duty but it is about sincerity. If all of things that we do are always in procession, be sure that it is going to be right. It is going to be happy.