Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love struck a chord within me during the isolation and distance experienced in lockdown.
The longing and fantasy of an idyllic pastoral life inspired my own vision of freedom outdoors, where parallels to pastoral poetry are drawn through natural settings and idealised elements of urban pleasures to convince my friend in joining me on adventures.
ENGL111 Miho 
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This is a brilliant first entry Miho: you not only understand the renaissance context but you can translate it beautifully into modern idiom. And your blog site is very tidy and attractive. Great work.. mark will be in LEO 🙂
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Hi Miho!
Reading this bought me a lot of enjoyment and made me smile, you have convinced me to come and be your friend. You employed all 6 types of imagery – techniques that were dominant in the poems we have studied. I also thought it was clever how you used the word “permit”. Overall, I think you applied the techniques we have studied amazingly, and I can see in your work, why these techniques have been used for centuries. If you wanted to challenge yourself even further, my only advice to give you would be to perhaps to take on the rhyme scheme, or even the structure of a sonnet.
From Maddy 😊
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Hello Miho!
What a beautiful poem! Your use of vivid imagery captures the essence of Marlowe’s pastoral poetry through a modern lens! It made me feel the same sentiment and longing towards having the freedom to explore and enjoy nature. The accompanying illustrations around your poem is very beautiful and visually appealing, which highlights the well written visual imagery you’ve presented through your words! Well done Miho! I am so excited to see more of your work!!
-Alessandra
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