Analysis of Donnes The Bait and Marlowes Passionate Shepherd to His L

Love, an highly and unsurprisingly popular topic among writers in every time period and nook of the world, is the central subject of devil similar, yet contradicting literary works The demon-ridden Shepard to His Love by Christopher Marlowe and The Bait by John Donne, respectively. Each germ masterfully utilizes imagery, but in different ways to achieve two different purposes. Marlowes idealistic vision of what love should be is countered by Donnes rather cynical realism.Both works begin with an homogeneous first line that is followed by a line that Donne alters from Marlowes buffer line. The change seems subtle yet it contains thematically significant meaning. Marlowes mo line reads and we will all the pleasures prove while Donne slightly changes the latter(prenominal) of the two and we will some new pleasures prove The discontinuity lies in the vocabulary as Marlowe fails to recognize the negatives connected with relationships. Donne acknowledges these hardships, replacin g Marlowes extreme password choice - all to some. The alteration provides a more practical(prenominal) approa...