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Name: Come live with me and be my love Essay

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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 …show more content…

This sentence he has made also involves nature to show how he really wants them to relax. He also uses the word, “seeing” to show to her that it is only for pleasure. He then says, “By shallow rivers to whose falls”. The poet uses the word, “river” because the river is indeed a peaceful and quiet place to be and that that is what he wants. Then he says
“Melodious birds sing madrigals”. Again he uses a natural imagery to create a nice impression in his love’s mind.

In this stanza, the poet is just beginning to try to capture his love’s mind with calm and passionate natural imagery.

“And I will make thee beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies”.
Although the persona is using natural imagery to capture his love’s mind still, over here he uses this allusion to convince his love to come and live with him. He uses this allusion because he knows that roses cannot be made out posies no matter the amount, he wants to show to his love that he loves her so much that he would do something impossible and something that could take forever. In the next two sentences, he says, “A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle” to explain to his love that if she comes to live with him, he would make her a kirtle (a skirt made with leaves) of myrtle. He shows her that it would be a beautiful one when he uses the word, “Flowers”. Also, in this stanza, he uses natural imagery to convince his love.

In stanza four the persona

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