Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love”

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as an Iron Age in which humans have become degenerate.
There are three main kinds of pastoral that can be identified in different works.
The classical pastoral begins with a conception on man and on human nature and locates it in a specific type, the shepherd, the simplicity of whose life is the goal toward which all existence strives. The shepherds remain first and foremost emblem of humanity, a general rather than a specific type and his afflictions and joys are universal.
is an example of classical pastoral although it present a very ambiguous situation. Even though the shepherd lives in a world of natural simplicity in which he describes the hills, the fields, the mountain, the flocks of sheep and the river. His speech is not simple. He made sure the rhyme and the rhythm were perfect. The birds don’t chirp or sing like any other bird but they sing madrigals. There is also a lot of sophistication in the shepherd’s gifts.

With buckles of the purest gold.
A belt of straw, ...

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