Areply to christopher marlowe`s "the passionate shepherd to his love".

if all the world and love were young,
and truth in every shepherd`s tongue,
these pretty pleasures might me move
to live with thee and be thy love.

but time drives flocks from field to fold; 5
when rivers rage and rocks grow cold;
and philomel becometh dumb;
the rest complains of cares to come.

the flowers do fade, and wanton fields
to wayward winter reckoning yields: 10
a honey tongue, a heart of gall,
is fancy`s spring, but sorrow`s fall.

thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
soon break, soon wither - soon forgotten,15
in folly ripe, in reason rotten.

thy belt of straw and ivy - buds,
thy coral clasps and amber studs, -
all these in me no means can move
to come to thee and be thy love.20

but could youth last, and love still breed,
had joys no date, nor age no need,
then these delights my mind might move
to live with thee and be thy love.

what is the theme of this poem?
a) life is better when you are old.
b) the shepherd is nice to his love.
c) life is better when you are young.
d) people often lie to get what they want.

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it creates a visual picture of the man.

it conveys what the scene sounds like.

it describes the actions of the boy.

it reveals the poet’s opinion of the characters.

it encourages readers to care for the characters.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.