COME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
What kind of love, what kind of offer is he going to give her?
He is going to give her all the romantic pleasures to enjoy materialistic kind of love.
There is direct address COME live with me
Pleasures= physical joys, not spiritual.
These pleasures are physical not spiritualروحانى. They will try all kinds of pleasures.
hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
Here, he is describing nature, the beautiful nature of surrounding.
They are going to enjoy sight seeing, walking in the valleys.
There are hills, valleys, mountains, grooves. We have raw –untamed nature= untouched by man; not cultivated nature.
He is going to take her to the valleys, to the grooves, to the fields, to the woods, to the mountains. He is going to take her and show her all the pleasures of the pastoral life.
In the first stanza, the speaker invites his beloved to come and to live with him, to be his love. Here, we have a direct seductionخداع- اغراء. He is seducing her. He tries to attract her attention with the pleasures of life.
Here, we have a seductive tone.
They will enjoy all the pleasures of the pastoral natural beauty of the setting.
There will we sit upon the rocks 5
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
They will sit upon the rocks; watch the shepherdsراعى feeding their flocks. They will hear the music of nature; the singing of the birds, the flowing of the rivers. The sound of water is a beautiful natural music.
madrigals= songs without music.
This is one of the actions they are going to do; to set on the rocks, to watch the shepherd take care of their sheep, to listen to the music of nature, the sound of the water falls and the sound of the signing birds.
There will I make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies, 10
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
In this stanza, we have the promises he gives her. He promises her that he will make her a bed of roses.
posies= kinds of flowers
It is a beautiful seductive atmosphere. He is going to make her a cap of flowers and a kirtle= gown of flowers.
Myrtle= a kind of trees with shiny small flowers that has a beautiful scent.
The flowery dress he is going to make her is embroidered مطرزwith the myrtle so that it will give her a kind of shining. It will be glittering with all of the beautiful flowers of nature.
We should notice the innocence and the simplicity بساطةof the speaker here. He is not going to give her diamonds or gold because he is a shepherd, a poor man. He lives in nature. All the riches that he owns are from nature.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold, 15
With buckles of the purest gold.
It is winter, it is very cold. He is going to make her a gown made of the finest wool to warm her body in winter. He is going to take the wool from his lambs. It is going to be very soft and very warm.
He will not leave her feet cold. He will make her slippers for the cold. They are going to be lined with wool. He is going to decorate the slippers حذاءwith buckles of the purest gold. These are all the beautiful gifts he is going to offer her. He is going to give her more gifts.
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.
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He is going to make her a belt that will surround her waist to protect her. This belt is not made of leather. It is made of straw of hay. It has ivy buds= small flowers.
With coral clasps and amber studs
He is going to make claspsمشبك for the belt made of coralالمرجان. He is going to decorate it with amberعنبر studsمجوهرات.
All the elements he is using are natural elements. We have a colorful image.
Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing 25
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.
They will not be alone. They will have the company of the shepherds. They will join them and provide them with pleasure and company. He is not going to live with her alone in this beautiful nature.
If all of these delights will make her to decide , she will live with him and be his love.
It is a very beautiful pastoral lyrical poem. It expresses a kind of sincere مخلصmood. The speaker here is not tricking يخدعthe lady. The invitation is sincere because he is a shepherd who lives in nature.
The poem has a seductive tone. We do not have any response of the lady.
The argument in the poem seems to be a dreamy fancy of the speaker. As if he is sure that his beloved will accept this imaginative world.
The world of the poem is a world of simplicity. It is a simple world. It is a world of love' a very beautiful world.
In the pastoral lyric, it seems timeless. This is the pastoral life. It is always timeless. There is no limit of the time. It is continuous into the pastoral setting.
The poet is trying to idealize the setting he is living in by showing all these pleasures. It is as if there are no hardshipsصعاب. The poet makes the life of the shepherd a world of fantasyخيال, of pleasure.
The poet- Marlowe is an urban مدنىcitizen who lives in the city. Most of the urban citizens think of the life of the country as a world of blessنعمة, a world of heaven because city life is full of stresses and difficulties but the country life is more symbol.
Q- What is the theme of the poem?
The theme of the poem is Cartesian = a Latin word that means = seize ينتهز الفرصةthe day= make use of the moment.
the poet has talked about the ideal life of the countryside as it is close to nature- the untamed nature= nature that is not touched by man; pure nature that is full of innocence, beauty, with great gifts of nature.
The poem is written in 6 stanzas. It is written in couplets.
We have some kind of repetition.
Come live with me and be my Love.
It is the first line of the poem, then it is repeated in the last two stanzas as a refrain= a line that occurs at the end of each stanza repeatedly. It is either a word, phrase or a line or a couple of lines that is repeated at the end of every stanza.
Here, we have the first line of the poem repeated after many stanzas at the last and before the last stanza. He repeated his invitation twice to make her condensed.
The first line in the poem, he invites her. Then he repeated the lines after he showed her the actions they are going to do, the promises, the gifts he is going to give her. Then he repeats the line again, the invitation again to emphasize his invitation and to show that he in sincere, that he is not a playful lover, to show that he is honest in his invitation, faithful in his love.
The language is so informal- very simple kind of language because it is a pastoral lyric; things that are related to nature.
We have several images, color images.