Composition and Literature
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
Assignment: Analyze and write 750 words on the poem above from the assigned readings using one of the following critical approaches (NOT reader response or biographical criticism) we discussed in the Week four forum, using one to two secondary sources to help support your argument. This source must be peer-reviewed and scholarly. Please read lesson four for an explanation about scholarly sources. Make sure that the essay has a strong thesis related to the approach--do not argue that "this poem is best analyzed with this approach." Again the allowed critical approach choices are:
- feminist criticism
- historical criticism
- Marxist and social criticism
- New Historicism
- psychological criticism
- structuralism
If you need more information on the different types of criticism. MLA FORMAT ONLY. CITE WORK IN TEXT AND AT THE END OF TEXT.