Compare Christopher Marlowe with Greg Smenda Essay

The passion for romance is something for human beings for thousands and thousands of years has never been changed, they of all time willing to give the best they expect to their love, in order to move their hearts immediately. Both of the poem of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Passionate cosmonaut to His Love are showing the impartressers patronal romance like others did. However, with the change of time setting, to scene apprise be so different. One is more(prenominal) classic and generosity and the other one is more modern and technical.CLASSIC AND HUMANITYInThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love, the first line of the first stanza, the shepherd tallys lightly and directly calls to his love. The Shepherd invites his love to come with him and pleasures prove (line 2.) This immediate reference to pleasure gives a mildly romantic tone to this poem. He implies that the entire grace of the countryside of England Valleys, groves, hills and fields/Woods or steeply mount ains will prove to contain pleasure of all kinds for the lovers. He uptake the beauty of nature to cranny his love. Its a very common theme in pastoral poetry. The next stanza suggests that the lovers will take their entertainment not in a theatre or at a banquet, but sitting upon rocks or by rivers.The third, fourth, and fifth stanzas are a kind of list of the delights, mostly sartorial, that the Shepherd will make for his love. The list of the things he will make for his lady reveal a colossal deal about the situation of the Shepherd and what he can offer his love. But in reality this increasingly fanciful list of gifts such as the gold buckles, the coral clasps, and the amber studs could only come from a subdivision of the gentry, or a merchant in a town. The fantasy of bucolic paradise is entirely idealized. Incidentally, the plants mentioned (roses, flowers, and myrtle) are conventional horticultural expressions of romance. The rose, especially, was sacred to the goddess Ve nus (and it is how roses have come to symbolizeromantic love in some modern Western cultures.)The image of the Shepherd as a member of the gentry becomes do it when, in the last stanza, it is state The shepherd swains shall dance and sing/ for thy delight each May-morning. The picture here is of other shepherds doing the speakers bidding. The poem ends with an if statement, and contains a slightly somber note. There is no guarantee that the lady will find these country enticements enough to follow the Shepherd, and since the construction of them is preposterous and fantastical to bugger off with, the lecturer is left with the very real possibility that the Shepherd will be disappointed.LINK PARAGRAPHPassionate Shepherd to His Love was appealing to a popular genre in Elizabethan England countryside. On reading on Greg Smendas parody of the poem, its obvious that he is appealing to a more modern reader. The timeline was in 1960s when space invention was popular. The intention of th e two poems is very different. It mining the movement of desire.MODERN AND TECHNICAL.By looking at the title, reader can pick up easily its a parody. They both have the same structure of total six stanzas and four lines each. They also use similar words and phrases such as the first stanza starts with Come live with me and be my mate similar words but Smenda used mate which gruelling less romantic than love. Both of them makes directly calls to their love. He invites his mate to come with him, but instead of pleasures prove its pleasure spate which gives a esthesis of horror instead of romance. He implies that the entire landscape of the moon which doesnt sound particularly romantic, but he offer what he think is the best. blank is very popular topic at that time. The next stanza also suggest that the lovers will take their entertainment, but is sitting on lunar crust, beside some volcanic crater holes with engines humming which sounds awful.The third, fourth, and fifth stanzas a re also kind of list of the delights that the astronaut will make for his lady love, but they doesnt make a great deal about the situation of the Astronaut and what he can offer to his love. A bed of plastic is easy to reach and doesnt sound well-off to sleep on. For an astronaut, a space suit is also easily available. In reality the gift he offered sounds good but they are not comparable with(predicate) than any sorts of treasures. The plastic, especially, was not aesthetically pleasing and doesnt have the connection with romance at all.The image of the Astronaut becomes complete when, in the last stanza, it is said The astronaut colony shall for you sing the picture here is also of other astronaut doing the speakers bidding. The poem is also end with an if statement, but add a very strong phrases with an exclamation mark at the very end, so the reader is left with a very positive feeling that the Astronaut will be accepted.CONCLUSIONEven though these two poem are based on the sa me structure and same sense of emerging for inviting their love one, they have completely different feeling. Marlowes poem can be described as classic and humanity, but Smendas poem can be described as modern and technical. So its clear that The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is more romantic than The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.