and be my Love Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe 1564 1593 Marlowe a poet and playwright during the Renaissance period influenced many great writers of his time including William Shakespeare even though his literary career lasted less than six years ID: 369987
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Come Live with me, and be my Love
Christopher MarloweSlide2
Christopher Marlowe
(1564 – 1593)
Marlowe, a poet and playwright during the Renaissance period, influenced many great writers of his time including William Shakespeare even though his literary career lasted less than six years.
Many suspect that Marlowe worked for the government in some capacity because he had several lengthy absences from the university that were excused after the university received a letter from the Privy Council.
Rumors of Marlowe’s atheism eventually caused his arrest, but he was released on the condition that he report daily to an officer of the court.Marlowe was killed in a fight, but conspiracy theories doubt the cause of his death.He is considered Shakespeare’s greatest predecessor and second only to Shakespeare in the realm of Elizabethan drama.
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Context
A young shepherd, the speaker, issues an invitation to a young woman by listing a series of impossible promises regarding their potential idyllic life together. This pastoral poem glorifies the simple, rustic pleasures of country life.Slide4
Structure
Written is six stanzas of four lines each (a quatrain), the poem presents a vision of pastoral life; thus, it is referred to as a pastoral poem.
A regular rhyme scheme consisting of two pairs of rhyming couplets per stanza, the iambic tetrameter, and the use of alliteration add to melodic quality of the poem.
The extra syllable on line 9 adds to the intensity of the speaker’s request. The trochee in line 10 adds to the harmonic meter of the poem.Slide5
The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love
Christopher Marlowe
Come
live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields Woods or
steepy mountain yieldsAnd we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flower, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold With buckles of the purest gold;A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.The shepherds' 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.
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Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields
Woods or steepy mountain yieldsAnd we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose
falls Melodious birds sing m
adrigals
.
The poem opens with a romantic line and establishes the persona of the speaker.
“Prove” means ‘to experience.’
Lines establish the country-side as the setting.
The enjambment draws attention to the young woman’s choices, which should be appealing to her.
Alliteration of “s” and “f” sounds reinforce the serenity of the proposed lifestyle. The “s” sound is
also sibilant.
Consonance of the “s” sound further enhance the hypnotic qualities of the proposal.
The nature imagery creates a relaxing state.Slide7
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flower, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle
;
A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold With buckles of the purest gold;
“Posies” is a pun because the word also refers to poetry.
“Roses” often refer to sex, so the speaker promises more than flowers.
Woman’s outer dress
Sidney Harold
Floral imagery reflects the fertile nature of the request.
Continuous use of enjambment adds to plea of the speaker. He quickly moves through promises that employ a sense of hyperbole. Slide8
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with
me
and be my love.The shepherds' 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.
“
Pleasures”may
reference sex again.
“May” is springtime, another reference to fertility.
The refrain in the last two stanzas contain internal rhyme (“me” and “be”) adds harmony to the poem (and his proposal).
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Sibilance continues with the alliteration and consonance of the “s” sounds. This adds to pleasing harmony of the request.Slide9
Tone
The tone of the poem is direct and urgent as time is not static as the speaker suggests.
There is also a bucolic tone that embraces the natural world, including what is natural to all lovers.
The melodic quality of the poem enhances the pastoral imager making the “argument” somewhat hypnotic.
Robert
PoetzelbergerSlide10
Theme
Love is the prevailing idea behind this poem, but its urgency celebrates youth, innocence and poetry. It is a lyrical poem that embraces a natural world that is static, or frozen, in time. Slide11
Works Cited
http://www.biography.com/people/christopher-marlowe-9399572#arrest-and-
death
http://www.enotes.com/topics/passionate-
shepherdhttp://www.shmoop.com/passionate-shepherd-to-his-love/