True love is having absolute devotion and eternal admiration for your significant other. True love is not a temporary feeling that will eventually fade over time. For some people, true love is a fairy tale and for others, true love is a dream come true. For two individuals to even think about getting married, they must first experience true love. In “Shepherd Passionate About His Love,” some readers see Marlowe's poem as an indirect proposal to a woman for whom he feels great affection. I believe this is not the case at all; I believe that Marlowe is trying his best to falsely advertise his true feelings towards the woman in order to seduce her. In the poem the initial gift offered by Marlowe is natural beauty in the form of birds and animals singing love songs, waterfalls, and beautiful hills. Then he proposes to use beauty as his dress; which means that their clothes will be the result of the work they get from the earth. Marlowe then finally offers the community a gift by saying that the shepherds will dance and sing for his amusement. And if the woman came to live with him, all the gifts would be at her disposal. What I noticed was that as the poem progressed, the gifts changed from minor, realistic things like: beds of roses and lamb's wool, to less natural objects like: coral clasps and amber studs, to the point in which he started offering unrealistic and luxurious things like: silver trays and ivory plates. However it would have been possible for Shepherd to produce the initial gifts of flowers and wool, but it would not have been remotely possible for him to obtain the jewels. It would have been impossible for him to provide that…half of the paper…underwear. To further help the shepherd's argument, his poem was also a pastoral poem, which justifies his exaggerations made using nature. And I totally agree with all of these points, but I still believe that the young pastor's motivations were simply to seduce the girl and not to truly love her for eternity. The reason is that there was no evidence to suggest that he loved this woman for the person she actually was. There were no intangibles mentioned when he compared her to all those wonderful things, just her body. And if you're going to marry someone, you better fall in love with the person you are first, outward appearance is only an advantage. As for the poem being a pastoral poem, Carpe Diem was also a hot topic right around the same time this poem was composed. This means that the young shepherd lived only for the moment and not for the long term.