“The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love”
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6 stanzas
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6 quatrains
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The refrain appears in line 20 when Marlowe
repeats the first line saying, “Come live with me, and be my love.” The
purpose of this is to accentuate his love for her, and how he genuinely wants
her to live with him.
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The tone of this poem is dreamy and passionate.
Line 8: “Melodious birds sing madrigals.”
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Line 2: “And we will all the pleasures prove.”
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Line 13-14: “A gown made of the finest wool/
Which from our pretty lambs we pull.” This clearly defines the poem as a
pastoral, since people in pastoral poems are mostly shepherds who live in a
simplified society.
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The shepherd entertains his love by promising
her many pleasures, most of which are unrealistic for a shepherd. He
promises her a bed of roses, fragrant poises, a cap of flowers, and
leaf-embroidered kirtle, slippers with a gold buckle, and a wool gown.
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A shepherd displays his love for a woman, and entertains
her with unrealistic pleasures. Love is straightforward and simple.
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
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6 stanzas
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6 quatrains
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The tone of this poem is witty and sarcastic
because the woman, in reply to Marlowe’s poem, will not be fallen into love
through materialistic things.
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The woman does not accept the shepherd’s love
for her. As plants will change through the seasons, so will his love for
her.
“To the Virgins, to
Make Much of Time”
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4 stanzas
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4 quatrains
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ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GHGH
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Personification: Line 3, where Herrick
personifies a flower by saying it smiles. Personification: Stanza two,
where the sun is running; showing that time is quickly passing.
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The author’s purpose in this poem is to
emphasize that people should make the most of themselves no matter what.
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The message of this poem is to never give up,
and to keep trying because usually when people fail at something once, they
don’t try again.
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The speaker in the poem talks about the briefness
of life and how life and death come quick. Make the most of your life.
“To His Coy Mistress”
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18 stanzas
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18 couplets
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Had we / but world / enough / and time.
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The allusions Marvell made were biblical. He
made references to Noah’s flood, and the conversion of the Jews to
Christianity.
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The purpose of this poem is to persuade his “coy
mistress” to take their relationship a step further and get married.
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A young man tries to convince the one he loves
to stay with him forever and that life is too short to miss the opportunity.
“A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning”
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9 stanzas
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9 quatrains
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The man speaking is in a situation where he has
to unwillingly leave his wife for a period of time.
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The author’s purpose is to show that their souls
will be unified, even though they physically are not.
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A man tells his wife not to mourn while he is
away.
“Death Be Not Proud”
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4 stanzas
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3 quatrains, 1 couplet
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ABBA/ABBA/CDDC/EE
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This poem is an apostrophe for the speaker talks
to death, or the idea thereof.
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The speaker of the poem states that death should
not be proud, for humans live eternally.
“On My First Son”
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3 stanzas
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3 quatrains
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Jonson’s son was compared to joy.
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Jonson loses his son, and he blames himself for
having high hopes on his son.
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Jonson had a submissive and affectionate tone in
this poem.
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This poem is about Jonson’s son’s death that
died of the plague on his seventh birthday.
“Song: To Celia”
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2 stanzas
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2 octaves
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Jonson makes references to Roman mythology,
specifically to Jove’s nectar.
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The speaker compares his love for Celia to
drinking wine.
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The speaker tries to woo his love and shows that
perfect love is divine.
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