True love is having absolute devotion and undying admiration for your other half. True love is not a temporary feeling that will eventually fade away with time. For some people, true love is a fairy tale and for others, true love is a dream come true. For two people to consider getting married, they must first experience true love. In “A Passionate Shepherd for His Love,” some readers see Marlowe's poem as an indirect proposal to a woman for whom he feels great affection. I believe that this is not the case at all; I believe that Marlowe does his best to falsely announce his true feelings towards the woman, in order to seduce her. In the poem, the initial gift given by Marlowe is natural beauty in the form of birds and animals singing love songs, waterfalls, and beautiful hills. Then he suggests using the beauty as clothing; which means that their clothes will be the result of the labor they obtain from the earth. Marlowe then finally gives a gift to the community saying that the shepherds will dance and sing for their entertainment. And if the woman came to live with him, all the gifts would belong to him. What I noticed was that as the poem progressed, the gifts changed from minor, realistic things such as: rose beds and lambswool, to less natural objects such as: coral clasps and amber studs, up to the point where he started giving. unrealistic and luxurious things such as: silver platters and ivory tables. However, it would have been possible for Shepherd to produce the first gifts of flowers and wool, but it would not have been possible for him to obtain the jewelry. It would have been impossible for him to provide the... middle of paper......floors. To further support Shepherd's argument, his poem was also a pastoral poem, which justifies his exaggerations made using nature. And I totally agree with all of these points, but I still believe that the young shepherd's motivations were simply to seduce the girl, not to truly love her for eternity. The reason is that there was no evidence to suggest that he loved this woman for the person she really was. No intangibles were mentioned when he compared her to all these wonderful things, just her body. And if you're going to marry someone, you better be in love with the person they are first, outward appearance is just a bonus. Regarding the poem being a pastoral poem, Carpe Diem was also a hot topic around the same time this poem was created. This means that the young shepherd only lived for the moment and not for the long term..