"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and "Song"

In the poems "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe
and "Song" by C. Day Lewis, the speakers display their individual views of
what can be expected with their love. Both speakers produce invitations
to love with differences in what they have to offer. A list of promised
delights is offered by the speaker in "The Passionate Shepherd," and
through persuasion, is able to influence the emotions of his love. The
speaker in "Song" shows the difficulties of his life, as seen in his
economic necessity and lack of material pleasures, but subsequently
offers his love unconditionally in order to convince his beloved. In
comparison the poems expose the speakers' use of separate methods to
influence their loves. Through comparing and contrasting the context in
which the invitations occur, what each speaker offers, and the tone of
each speaker, these differing methods can be understood. The "Passionate
Shepherd" is set in a romantic, natural backdrop in...