ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Pastoral poetry is a genre that typically relates to country/rural life and often depicts the lives of shepherds. This sort of poetry describes the simple and pure lives of shepherds, who exist free from the corruptions of city life. Rural life is depicted as being “pure” in pastoral poetry and is usually idealized.

Detailed explanation-2: -A pastoral poem explores the fantasy of withdrawing from modern life to live in an idyllic rural setting. All pastoral poetry draws on the tradition of the ancient Greek poet Theocritus, who wrote romanticized visions of shepherds living rich and fulfilled lives.

Detailed explanation-3: -: a literary work (such as a poem or play) dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court life. : pastoral poetry or drama.

Detailed explanation-4: -eclogue, a short pastoral poem, usually in dialogue, on the subject of rural life and the society of shepherds, depicting rural life as free from the complexity and corruption of more civilized life.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of the most well-known love poems in the English language, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral.