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Why treat them any different? We're all humans... We all like different things.
The answer is allegory, since allegory is a rhetorical device that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures in a literary piece which create the meaning the author wants to portray. It is in a form of story or poem and the meaning could be political or moral, depending on the author's true meaning.
1) Hesiod (750 BC)
2) Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
3) Dante Alighieri (1265 AD - 1321 AD)
4) Christopher Marlowe (1564 AD - 1593 AD)
5) William Shakespeare (1564 AD - 1616 AD)
Although Shakespeare and Marlowe were born in the same year, Marlowe died first and Shakespeare continued his literature production. Some think that Marlowe faked his death and changed his name to Shakespeare.
Pastoral poetry is characterized by idealizing rural life and landscapes, it presents society of shepard untied to concerns of city life.