Pastoral PoetryPastoral: “Shepherd” meaning in the

country, in the “pasture”CARPE DIEM – Live life to the fullest

now… for tomorrow, we die.

A gown made of the finest woolWhich from our pretty lambs we pull,

Fair linèd slippers for the cold,With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy budsWith coral clasps and amber studs:

And if these pleasures may thee move,Come live with me and be my Love.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May-morning:If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my Love.

By Christopher Marlowe

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (pg 233)

COME live with me and be my Love,And we will all the pleasures prove

That hills and valleys, dale and field,And all the craggy mountains yield.

There will we sit upon the rocks

And see the shepherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals.

There will I make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.

The gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies

Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,— In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs,

All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last and love still breed, Had joys no date nor age no need,

Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love.

By Sir Walter Raleigh

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (pg 235)

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move

To live with thee and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold,When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;

And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields:

A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Passionate Shepherd Nymph’s Reply1. If everything was young, and all shepherds told the truth, then maybe.

1. Come live with me, and you’ll have all this.

2. We’ll sit & listen to the birds sing.

3. I’ll make you a bed of roses, a hat, and a fancy skirt.

4. I’ll give you wool clothing to keep you warm.

5. I’ll make you a beautiful belt as well – if you like all of this, come and be my love.

6. The boys will sing and dance for you each morning if you come to me.

2. And when the sheep, the rivers, and the birds freeze for the winter, then what?

3. Everything will die away in winter… these things are nice in the spring, but they don’t last.

4. All of your pleasures will soon be forgotten and rotten.

5. All of these things cannot move me to be with you.

6. But if you could stay young , and our joy would last forever, then I’d come & be your love.

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (pg 239)

GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting,The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry : For having lost but once your prime You may for ever tarry. By Robert Herrick

Robert HerrickStanza 1 – Persuasion: Enjoy the flowers while you can, time is flying, and they’ll be dead soon.

Stanza 2 – Persuasion: We’re in a race with the sun, and soon the “daytime” of your life will be over.

Stanza 3 – Persuasion: Youth is better than old age, so use this season of life while you can.

Stanza 4 – Persuasion: So go be married while someone still wants your youth & beauty. Once you’re old, no one may want you.

To His Coy Mistress (pg 241-242)

Had we but world enough, and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love's day;Thou by the Indian Ganges' sideShouldst rubies find; I by the tideOf Humber would complain. I wouldLove you ten years before the Flood;And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.My vegetable love should growVaster than empires, and more slow.An hundred years should go to praiseThine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;Two hundred to adore each breast,But thirty thousand to the rest;An age at least to every part,And the last age should show your heart.For, lady, you deserve this state,Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hearTime's winged chariot hurrying near;And yonder all before us lieDeserts of vast eternity.

Now therefore, while the youthful hueSits on thy skin like morning dew,And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires,Now let us sport us while we may;And now, like am'rous birds of prey,Rather at once our time devour,Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.Let us roll all our strength, and allOur sweetness, up into one ball;And tear our pleasures with rough strifeThorough the iron gates of life.Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.

By Andrew Marvell

Thy beauty shall no more be found,Nor, in thy marble vault, shall soundMy echoing song; then worms shall tryThat long preserv'd virginity,And your quaint honour turn to dust,And into ashes all my lust.The grave's a fine and private place,But none I think do there embrace.

Andrew Marvell (pg 241)

A. Son of a clergymanB. Received an excellent education at

Cambridge.C. Travelled around EuropeD. Never married

2. “Mary Marvell” – actually, his housekeeper

“To His Coy Mistress”

3. Time is personified as the “winged chariot” that hurries people to their deaths (or heaven).

-- Time is used as the reason why they should live for the pleasure that they can find together.

4. Marvell asserts that his love should “seize the day” by seizing every opportunity to be happy with him.

“To His cold and standoffish girlfriend”…

5. Any lines that have to do with the passing of time, and how time is the enemy communicate the “carpe diem” mentality.

6. Hyperbole: Coyness as a crime (2), Loving her before time as they know it began (8)… etc.

Understatement: The grave is simply a quiet place to rest alone (31-2)

--Effect: Makes the poem a bit outlandish and funny.

John Donne (pg 253)

1. 142. ABBA, ABBA, CDDC, EE3. Addressing Death as a person.4. They have immortality through life in heaven.5. Death itself is subject to other forces: fate,

chance, kings, and desperate men who call it up at will.

6. Spenserian/Shakespearean – rhyme scheme and stanzas

7. Death doesn’t really kill anyone, and it serves fate, chance, kings, and desperate people.