11/6/2012
NOVEMBER 5
PASTORAL POETRY
Introduce
Warm
and analyze Pastoral Poetry
Up: Journal Response (7 minutes)
Describe
your best experience in nature. What is
something you’ve done outside that your really
enjoyed? Where were you? What did it look like?
How was the weather? Be as descriptive and
specific as possible.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Presents shepherd in idealized rural settings.
Tend to use courtly speech and treat themes such
as love.
They have metrical patterns and rhyme schemes
that help give them a musical or songlike quality.
The imagery of the poems derive from
commonplace country settings.
In reading pastoral poetry, you should look for
details of pastoral life & the use of nature imagery
to convey emotions and ideas.
Objectives:
“THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE”
Read
Marlowe’s poem on pg. 314 of the
textbook (it is the 9th poem in your packet).
Identify as many pastoral qualities that you can.
1st great English
playwright.
Son of a poor shoemaker,
attended Cambridge on
scholarship.
Accused of being a traitor,
a spy, a atheist, a
counterfeiter, and a
murderer.
Killed in a tavern brawl at
the age of 29.
“THE NYMPH’S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD”
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
Was a favorite of Queen
Elizabeth I
When she found out that
he married without her
permission, she
imprisoned both of them.
He eventually bought his
way out of prison and led
several expeditions to
the New World.
Executed by King James I
Read
Raleigh’s poem on pg. 316 of the
textbook or immediately following Marlowe’s
poem in the packet.
Analyze this poem for pastoral qualities.
How do these two poems compare to one
another?
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