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The poem is a response to the poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe. In a nutshell, this poem is a parody of the Marlowe poem, offering binary opposites for everything that Marlowe offers up in his poem: where Marlowe offers lies, (I will make thee beds of roses", Day-Lewis offers truth "Care on thy maiden brow shall put/a wreath of wrinkles"; the four beat per line tetrameter is even ironically mimicked. The Elizabethan pastoral idyll of TPS is completely opposed by Day-Lewis's 20th century industrial imagery, an imagery which reflects the hardships of the working class man in Britain following the Stock Market crash in 1929; "chance employment" and "bed and board" being only some of the so-called delights on offer in the between-the-wars period "of peace and plenty." The narrator (again in opposition to the narrator in TPS) loves the character he is speaking to so much, that he is providing them with all the facts of just how difficult life would be with him were they to choose such an avenue. He wants to be truthful to them, even if he risks losing them: "thy foot/Be shod with pain." This is essentially a poem about love flourishing in the face of hardship and potential starvation due to poverty. Day-Lewis is extolling the virtues of a relationship that is based on love and built to last; one that will withstand any hardship, even "hunger" and "death."
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