Name: Come live with me and be my love

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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.

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