Question

Identify the genre that the following passage belongs to:
Meliboeus.
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's familiar bounds, even now depart.
Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
Sit careless in the shade, and, at your call,
"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.
Tityrus.
O Meliboeus, 'twas a god vouchsafed
This ease to us, for him a god will I
Deem ever, and from my folds a tender lamb
Oft with its life-blood shall his altar stain.
His gift it is that, as your eyes may see,
My kine may roam at large,

• A. Satire
• B. Allegory
• C. Pastoral
• D. Sonnet

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Pastoral

Meliboeus and Tityrus present a idealized version of the country life as evidenced by lines and phrases like "my sweet fields". It is evident from the passage that Meliboeus is exiled from the fields that he used to cultivate and he is asking Tityrus how he alluded exile and is free to cultivate his fields. This classifies the passage as pastoral literature. So, the answer is option C.