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A Comparison and Contrast of Love in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate
Shepherd to his Love" and C. Day Lewis's "Song"


In the poems "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher
Marlowe and "Song" by C. Day Lewis, the speakers display their individual views
of what can be expected with their love. Both speakers produce invitations to
love with differences in what they have to offer. A list of promised delights
is offered by the speaker in "The Passionate Shepherd," and through persuasion,
is able to influence the emotions of his love. The speaker in "Song" shows the
difficulties of his life, as seen in his economic necessity and lack of
material pleasures, but subsequently offers his love unconditionally in order to
convince his beloved. In comparison the poems expose the speakers' use of
separate methods to influence their loves. Through comparing and contrasting
the context in which the invitations occur, what each speaker offers, and the
tone of each speaker,......

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