Language of Love

     It's actually quite funny that whenever I'm asked to relate a dialogue or poem about love to some other novels or poems, I think of Romeo and Juliet, and the musical Guys and Dolls. Maybe that's why english techers should start including more love-related-novels to their curriculum. In the dialogue or poem between the shepherd and his love, the shepherd is rejected by his love because she does not believe in the idealized view of pastoral life. The shepherd, however, seems to be very optimistic and upright in his vision and promises to make gowns and other garments for his love. On the contraray, in Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo first sneeks in Juliet's garden, he openly expresses his love for Juliet and Juliet also rejects him. However, Juliet does like Romeo when compared with the aloofness of the shepherd's love. It's just that Juliet knows the feud that has always existed between the Montagues and the Capulets so she should not be meeting Romeo. Although Juliet rejects Romeo at first, she gave up in the end and their love "bursts", which is very different from the contradictory relationship between the shepherd and his love because the shepherd's love mocks the idealized rural life.