Christopher Marlowe and Kazi Nazrul Islam are very much similar in expressing their romantic love in their two songs “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “My Love” respectively. In both songs, romantic zeal is used to reveal the speakers’ indomitable passions for two maidens—presumably young and pretty girls. In the two songs, the speakers express their ‘passionate’ appeal to their beloveds to come and live with them. The intense love they feel inside bursts out in the way they offer a series of attractive gifts to their lady loves to move their hearts in their favour. The speaker in Marlowe’s song tries to persuade his beloved with beautiful objects from nature whereas the speaker in Nazrul’s song with bewitching objects from the sky. The speakers are promising the impossible, but, no doubt, they are representatives of any eager lovers who hyperbolize their love to entice their beloveds. The focal point of this article is to make a comparative study of romantic love.

Keywords: Marlowe, Nazrul, Similarities, Love, Invitation, Comparative Literature, Hyperbole.