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Christopher Marlowe - Elizabethean Dramatist  | Mini Bio | BIO

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Throughout this love poem, "The Shepherd" is confessing his love to the Nymph. As he is doing this, he explains many ways of how he can obtain her love, through material objects. There is a lot of irony in this. Many say that love cannot be bought, but earned.

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The poem takes on a happy theme, with the promise that they will be happy together. We see continuous promises of gifts and reasons to convince the nymph to take the lonely shepherd's hand in marriage. "The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May-morning" The shepherd promise to do anything to make this nymph happy. Unfortunately the poem fails to promise true and unconditional love and instead focus on showering her with gifts in order to get her to take his hand.

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-Born on the 26th of February, 1546 and was murdered at the age of 29 in Bedford.
-He paved the way for many other works from many other poets including Shakespeare
-He attended the King's school, which is a prestigious school, on a full scholarship
-Was associated with the murder of William Bradley, spent just one night in prison
-A friend was arrested with the intent to start a mob and when his home was searched documents were found that he said were not his. The documents mocked Christ, Kyd said the documents where Marlowes and wrote several letters denouncing him as his friends.

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It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.
hen two are stript long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should lose, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:
The reason no man knows; let it suffice,
What we behold is censur'd by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight.

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The Passionate Shepherd's offer is rejected because "the material goods that [he] has to offer will fade with time".The shepherd's proposition is "conditional". In order for the nymph to make the right decision, the shepherd would have to guarantee that he could provide her with all of the pleasures that he promises her, which is debatable (Huth 57).
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"Its simple, musical language and fanciful imagery create an idyll of innocent love (Stein)"

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"Its simple, musical language and fanciful imagery create an idyll of innocent love (Stein)"

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The shepherd has an idealized image of romance. He pictures his relationship with the nymph "as a game enjoyed in an eternal spring", ignoring the realities of life: the "cold winters" and all of the time he will be separated from his love tending to his flock (Stein).
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Born the 26th of February of 1546, Christopher Marlowe lived during the same time as the great Shakespeare, often considered to be just below him when it came to there writing. In fact, Shakespeare and many other poets built off of Marlowe's work in areas such as language and the blank-verse line. Christopher had attended college at the KIng's School on a full scholarship when they had realized the extent of his abilities in writing. Marlowe paved the way for a lot of other poets, creating the Edward II which was the "earliest successful history play", which was followed by works from Shakespeare (www.marlowe-society.org). Christopher Marlowe was an important figure of his time but unfortunately, his life came to a sudden end when he was murdered at the young age of 29.

Sources:
“Christopher Marlowe.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christopher-marlowe.
“Announcements.” The Marlowe Society, www.marlowe-society.org/.

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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 yields.

And 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 flowers, 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.