Comparing The Passionate Shepherd To His Love, Her Reply, and Cecil Day

Comparing The Passionate Shepherd To His Love,Her Reply, and Cecil Day Lewis When looking at these trio verses, it immediately becomes noticeable that all of them ar very similar. They often apportion the like lines, almost word for word, and kick upstairsmore follow a smilar tone, as well as having an identical rhyming pattern. The passionate shepherd to his get along (poem number one) is followed by an answer from his roll in the hayr (poem number two), and is then followed up by a further poem by Cecil Day Lewis, which worry in poem number one, is an attempt at winning a ladies heart over, and convincing her to devote all her love to him. The first poem seems to be an idyillic one, and spends a lot of time going into the description of the environ nature. Christopher Marlowe describes the countryside as being pure and beautiful, and seems to be trying to suggest that his love is also something natural and pure. That hills and valley, dales and fields, Or woods or steep y mountain yields except it almost seems as though it is too good to be true, as one knows that nature also conceals many dangers. However he takes it further than that, and seems to try and build up a kind of utopia for his love public lecture about treating her as well as he possibly can. And I will make thee a bed of roses, And a thousand perfumed posies However the poet is now attempting to build up such a sinless image of their possible life together, that it becomes ever more unrealistic. The answer from the doll whose heart he is trying to win over however, takes a furthest more realistic approach, and seems to try and bring him back down to earth. She makes him conscious of the fact that time brings change, an... ..., but in the closing two lines of the go away stanza in poems in and three the poets once again use the same(p) lines to express their feelings. If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my Love. To decide the comparison of the three given poems it must be said that they are very similar, and in certain aspects even identical. The only exception to this seems to be the second poem, which was a reply to the first. Despite talking about the same topic, and being directly linked to the first poem, it is very different, as it is not attempting to proclaim the poets love, but is turning it down. Equally the last poem differs fairly due to different circumstances. Yet all of them are attempting to show the indorser (or the person it is meant for), what the poets feelings towards that person is, by using very descriptive language.