Love Poetry - The first poem I chosen is 'The passionate shepherd to his love' written by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), 'The nymph's reply to the shepherd' by Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618) and finally 'Bredon Hill' written A.E. Housman (1859-1936).

Authors Avatar

Love Poetry

For my literature essay I have decided to write about three poems each

showing a different view of love.  The first poem I chosen is 'The passionate

shepherd to his love' written by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), 'The

nymph's reply to the shepherd' by Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618) and finally

'Bredon Hill' written A.E. Housman (1859-1936).  I have chosen these three

poems because each of them have a different view of love and what

each poet is prepared to do for love.  The third poem I have chosen is in

reply to the second poem and it takes a very different view of love in how

it isn't always good and how it can fade.  Some of the poems are realistic

but others are very romanticized.  Using these three poems I am going to

contrast the view of love taken by each poet.

The first poem I have choosen to comment on is 'The Passionate Shepherd

To His Love' written by Christopher Marlowe.  In this poem we see a very

romanticized view of how this poet sees love.  This poem focusses on the

things that the poet can give his love but if you look closely he has

promised her things which are impractical and that will soon fade or

break.  Examples of this are 'fragrant posies', 'fair lined slippers', 'bed of

roses' and 'gown made of the finest wool'.  The poet has done this to show

Join now!

the girl, if she will love him, that their life will prefect and she can have all

this but only if she loves him.  All through this poem we can see that the

poet focusses on nature and that everything he promises her is beautiful

and natural.  The poet has done this because he wants to keep with the

rustic background and show her he is offering her all he can.

The poet uses a lot of imagery, he includes lots of adjectives when he is

describing things examples of this are 'craggy' ...

This is a preview of the whole essay