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Come live with me and be my love
Focus: Marlowe’s use of words in communicating the meaning of the
poem and how his poem is a memorable one.
The poem “come live with me and be my love” is a love poem written
by Christopher Marlowe, persuading his love to come and spend some
time with him. It is a poem full of romantic and passionate words that
form natural imagery to convey the poet’s feelings and what he means.
By the way the poet uses words to persuade his love, makes the poem
similar to the poem, “To his coy mistress”.
In the first stanza, the poet says, “Come live with me and be my
love”. He just says “come” and does not add “please” to show her a bit
of urgency but in a polite or calm tone. He stresses on the fact that
he wants her to come and have a romantic time by saying, “and be my
love”. In the next sentence, “And we will all the pleasures prove”.
Already, he has started saying “we” to show that he really wants to be
with her. He also wants to inform his love that he will give her a
nice time when he says, “All the pleasures prove”. He then continues
his sentence with, “that valleys, groves, hills, and fields woods or
steepy mountains yields,” He says this to tell her where he wants them
to go which is basically nature places. He uses the nature words to
create natural imagery to show a wider imagination. Also he uses
nature because already he can feel a sense of freshness and beauty for
the two of them.
“And we will sit upon the rocks”. He says it to tell her what he
really wants then to do. He uses the word, “sit” and not “stand” to
show to his love that he wants to spend a long and comfortable time
with her. He also shows that he wants them to have a relaxing time as
he says,...
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... these pleasures may thee move, come live with me and be my
love”. In this, persona goes straight to the point telling his love
that if all that he has told her is good enough she should just come
and stay with him. There is also a feeling of him being desperate when
he says in the last line that, “come live with me and be my love”
I think that the poem is made memorable by the way the persona uses
natural imagery to relate to his feelings and by the way he uses a
very convincing and gentle tone to persuade his love to come and be
his love . This twenty line poem is also made memorable by the way the
poet uses rhymes to catch the attention of the reader and the way he
uses some old fashioned English to draw attention to the reader such
as, “flocks”. That is how the poem, “come live with me and be my love”
written by Christopher Marlowe is made memorable.
with you", he says,"I want to taste the salt of your skin"(How's it gonna be). Instead of saying,"I
face to face. And he asks her to dance with him. The fact that she didn't try to escape but
knows that she enjoys it, and it makes her happy. It is as though he
tries to make her disinterested in him so that again, he may concentrate on the
which shows that all he wanted from her was to be reassured that he is
is telling her to do all the time. This is shown by the way he has
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feels; he just imposes his ways on her and expects her to go along with it.
writing the poem, to woo his love. Or maybe is the line was not meant
The tone and emotion of the poem changes as the speaker goes on. The first stanza of the poem convey...
The types of love in a poem can be reflected in many ways. One of
Nims, John . “Love Poem”. Literature to go. Ed. Meyer, Michael. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. Print.
him, but she has no intentions of falling in love with him as she is
of his true intentions and that he does not plan to 'keep her long' we
can be happy as he knows she has always been loyal to him and made