A mock epic or mock pastoral poem are not necessarily the same thing, though they could be. In a broad sense, the mock epic is a poem that satirizes epic poetry's form and style of the classical era....
Pastoral poems are about countryside and natural beauty and sheperds etc. Rural things. Pastoral poems are nice and tranquil and make the the place look almost exemplary.
A pastoral poem only means a poem in which the life of shepherds, flocks, herds, country life, rural scenes are described. It is not a poetic form. There is no upper or lower limitation to the number...
A Pastoral poem is one in which country characters, usually shepherds, discuss the big questions about life and love. The notion that simple rural folk have a profound understanding of things comes...