Guided Response to Two Poems

Student Name Instructor Course Date A Guided Response Comparing the Poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Bait" Many poets were and are still inspired by the theme of love. Flattering and sentimental, love helps communicate the most inherent and genuine emotions and feelings. In this context, the narrators employ explicit poetic elements to delineate this eternal inspiration resource and phenomenon. In this guided response, the writer examines how love is portrayed in the poems “The Bait” by John Donne and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe. It is established in this short essay that the poets employed distinct approaches and attempted to explore the eternal theme of love from different dimensions. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a prominent English Renaissance poem composed in the late sixteenth century. The art is tailored to promote innocence, youthfulness, and love, and does not constitute a guideline on how to assume a shepherd role in relationship matters. Marlowe urges the listener to come with him to the countryside and reside with him there. Marlowe seduces the listener vividly in the second stanza: “And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls, Melodious birds sing madrigals” (Marlowe 67). In this context, Marlowe’s love can be termed as untouchable and quiet, as he wanted to simply appreciate the countrys...