1. The Passionate
Shepherd To His
Love
By: Christopher Marlowe

2. The Passionate
Shepherd To His Love
is an example of a
pastoral poem.

3. a poetic kind
that concerns
itself with simple
Pastoral life of country
folk and
Poem describes that
life in stylized,
idealized terms.

4. Characters are
shepherds or
Pastoral eople involved in
tending to basic
Poem human needs in
a simplified
society.

5. the language of
pastoral is
informal and fairly
Pastoral simple, although
always a bit more
Poem sophisticated than
that of real
shepherds

6. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
a small
Grove group of
trees

7. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
a song for
several singers,
Madrigal usually without
musical
instruments

8. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
a small
Posy bunch of
flowers

9. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
to decorate
fabric with a
Kirtle pattern of
stitches usually
using colored
thread

10. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
a bush with
the tree
shiny leaves,
Myrtle pink or white
of
flowers and
Aphrodite
bluish-black
berries

11. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
a hard transparent
yellowish-brown
Amber substance formed
in ancient times
from the liquid of
trees

12. WORDS DEFINED
THE PASTORAL WAY
Swain a young man
who is in love
an evergreen plant
Ivy buds that grows up walls
or along the
ground

13. POETIC STRUCTURE:
MAIN IDEA
HIS
LOVE AND
SHEPHERD
AFFECTION FOR
PROMISES
AN
UNDESCRIBED
WOMAN

14. The poem is divided into
three parts:
Stanza 1~Stanza 2
The speaker hopes his love
to live with him and enjoy
the beauty of the nature.

15. The poem is divided into
three parts:
Stanza 3-Stanza 5
The speaker makes
many things to please
and persuade his love.

16. The poem is divided into
three parts:
Stanza 6
The speaker presents one last
imagery—that of young men
singing and dancing in love if the
lady accepts his proposal.

17. WHO IS THE
SPEAKER IN
THE POEM?

18. Work in pairs and
look for
characteristics of the
shepherd based from
the poem’s context.