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Pastoral life is the focused area of writing for poets and writers. From the ancient times, numerous works have been written on pastoral world in poetry and prose. It was Theocritus, who wrote idealized accounts of shepherds and their loves living simple, virtuous lives in Arcadia, a mountainous region of Greece. After his account of pastoral lives of shepherds, subsequent poets also wrote about rural lives of people. Poets of English world took the pastoral tradition by retreating from the trappings of modernity to the imagined virtues and romance of rural life in their writings, as in Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calendar, Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,”and Sir Walter Raleigh’s response,