Remixing Literature Book

Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

• Dramatic Situation- Narrated by a male and the poem seems to take place in a nature like place.
• Structure of the Poem- The author of the poem lists many reasons to why the girl should be with him. First he begins to try and tell her about how he is hoping she'll come to him so that they will be able to enjoy the beauty of nature together then he begins to try and convince her about his love for her and lastly he says how everyone will welcome her when she receives the love he offers her.
• Theme of the poem- The theme would be "convincing a loved one to love him back" for the reason that throughout the poem that is all he is doing.
• Grammar and Meaning-

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Images and Figures of Speech- I can feel the love that the author has for her as well as hear everything he is describing to her that they can be doing if she becomes his.
Important Words- 
Then live with me and be my love.
Tone- The tone would be both sincere and passionate towards the woman.
Literary Techniques- 
Apostrophe: 
Come live with me and be my love,
Imagery:
And we will sit upon the rocks, 
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, 
By shallow rivers to whose falls 
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
 
Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
Dramatic Situation- The speaker is only one and he is a male trying to find out if women are the same in the moon.
Structure- The poem by Sidney is structured like a Sonnet and in each part of the poem he asks the moon different questions about women because of a rejection.
Theme of the poem-  The theme of the poem would be love because it is about how he still loves a woman even though she doesn't love him back.
Grammar and Meaning- 

Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Images and Figures of Speech- The feeling of this poem becomes the depression of the character in it.
Important Words- 

Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Tone- The tone the author has in this poem would be a tone of depression, disappointment, and resentment.
Literary Techniques-
Apostrophe: 
Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Personification:
That busy archer his sharp arrow tries?