ENG101

An in-depth four-page essay that examines the Bucolic tradition in English poetry. Poems such as C Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to his love" and " Michael” by William Wordsworth, which exemplify the different definitions of the pastoral in poetry, are examined. Additionally, the anti-pastoral in poetry, represented in Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Death of a Naturalist ", is analysed. Furthermore, the post-pastoral in poetry, epitomized in Derek Walcott’s poem,” Pastoral," i...