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Pastoral. A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasturage. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art and music that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences.
Definition: Ah, the simple life. The brook babbles by, the sunlight dapples on the ground, filtering through the live oaks above. And yonder, a blue jay takes flight, while we tend to our flock of sheep, here on the grassy hummocksâ¦. Oh, pardon us. We were just operating in the pastoral mode. Shmoop likes the great outdoors, and sometimes we just can't help ourselves. See, the pastoral mode is all about glorifying the simple life, the rural life, the country life. In ye olden times, pastorals were mostly about shepherds out shepherding.