Lyric Poem. A lyric poem is a musical verse that expresses the emotions of the speaker.
Pastoral Poem. A pastoral verse, from the Latin pastor, meaning “shepherd,” is a verse that deals with idealized rural life.
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“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a plea from the speaker to his beloved. The shepherd invites his beloved to come live with him. Several poets wrote responses to this lyric invitation. Marlowe wrote this poem in iambic tetrameter—a simple, natural meter—to give the poem a simplicity of expression that mirrors its subject.
Make a sensory details chart that shows the ways in which the speaker idealizes rural life.
Write about your favorite place in a way that might convince somebody to go there. Emphasize the positive and leave out the negative.
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