1. What current love songs can you think of – in any popular music style?
Can you recall songs sung from the perspective of an impatient suitor to a specific love who hasn’t quite committed himself/herself – or not in the way the singer wants? What songs come to mind that follow this pattern?
How is love treated in popular music today?
Warm Up

2. Pastoral Poetry/ Carpe Diem Poetry

3. Notes A Pastoral poem is … Popular during the English Renaissance.
A poem that presents shepherds in idealized rural settings.
Popular during the English Renaissance.
Not written to show how people in the country really lived and spoke.
They used this sophisticated type of poetry to express their feelings and thoughts about love and other subjects
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4. IMAGERY- comes from commonplace country settings
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5. FORM – formal meters and rhyme schemes help give pastorals a musical or songlike quality
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6. STYLE – speakers use elegant, refined language rather than the language of common speech
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7. What movie scenes, personal stories, or literary character actions come to mind when you hear the phrase: Carpe Diem?
Discuss

9. Seize the day – a literary theme that urges living in the present moment, especially in pleasurable pursuits.
Carpe Diem Defined

10. Focus for Reading As you read pastoral poetry look for:
The details mentioned describing pastoral life
The use of nature imagery
Themes mentioned
Focus for Reading