Foundation of Literature

Rismayanti Dewi Solihat
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Love Poem
Title: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Author: Christopher Marlowe

This poem tells about unidentified man who loves unidentified woman. The man is a shepherd. The shepherd promises her happiness if she wants to live with him. The shepherd tries to describe about a beautiful life with him in the countryside, and about what she will get from his flocks, like a gown made of the finest wool and a belt of straw and ivy-buds, without mentioning the dangers that could happen in the field like wolves, etc. I think this poem is very romantic but not real because the man in this poem seems will gives anything what the woman wants. This poem is like with my sister’s story. One day, my sister met a man. At the first time, the man always made my sister happy by giving anything, but time by time, the man change. When my sister needed some help from him he always avoided her.