How do the enticements in the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" fit into the pastoral convention?

Well, to understand this poem necessarily inolves some
understanding of the word pastoral and how this impacted litreature. The word pastoral
comes from the Latin word for shepherd. Pastoral poems are normally based in an
idealised countryside populated by handsome shepherds and beautiful young women, all at
one with nature. There is always an amusing irony in pastoral poems, as although the
characters are theoretically rustic peasants, the language and diction in which they
speak indicates that they are highly sophisticated. The majority of pastoral literature
expresses a longing for a "golden age" or a simpler
lifestyle.

In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,"
therefore, the speaker makes a number of typically pastoral appeals to convince his
beloved to live with him and be his love. These range from sitting upon rocks and
watching shepherds feed their flocks to the things that he will make his
lover:

And I
will make thee beds of roses,

And a thousand fragrant
posies,

A cap of flowers, and a
kirtle,

Embroidered all with leaves of
myrtle.

Thus a sensuous and
passionate tone is created as the speaker does his best to seduce his lover with the
supposed joys that the countryside can offer.