Essay on A Discourse of Remours for the Amorous

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is one of Christopher Marlowe’s pastoral poem. A pastoral poem deals with the idealistic rather than realistic viewpoint of the life of the country. In the poem, the speaker is trying to convince his love to come and live with him. The setting that gets described here sets the mood of the poem. The sincerity and the eagerness of the speaker can be observed

“The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’sReply” by Sir Walter Raleigh are two of the most well known of pastoral poems and theirresponses. Marlowe’s poem speaks of beautiful things a shepherd will make for his lady love,while Raleigh's response to Marlowe’s is a tongue-in-cheek poem of a woman who rebukes theshepherd’s actions. Of the many responses to Marlowe’s original poem, Raleigh's is the clearwinner. Due to his style, content, and opinion, Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply” is thebest reverberation of Marlowe’s original poem.Raleigh’s stylistic choices for “The Nymph’s Reply” make for a perfect response toMarlowe’s work. Its rhyme scheme and overall structure make Raleigh's reply all the morecutting.

While both poems convey an awareness of death approaching, the causes of death are different. Shakespeare’s poem being a lament about unrequited love,

Throughout the three poems “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love,” “The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd,” and “Raleigh Was Right;” By Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and William Carlos Williams. We can see the themes of nature and love addressed in different ways throughout all three poems. In the first we see nature in a positive, auspicious way, whereas in the subsequent poems we see nature in a negative, gloomy, violent light. The tertiary poem “Raleigh Was Right” agrees with and supports Raleigh's views of nature in a negative light.

Each poem uses nature is the main setting. Marlowe uses it as a good thing in the poem, even if Raleigh and William don’t agree with

A slightly different approach to a proclamation of love is conveyed in the third poem,  by Christopher Marlowe.  He,  despite having the same aim as the poet in the first poem,  seeks a far more realistic approach,  and seems to try to win his loves over by being truthful and presenting her with the truth.  However he does this in such a manner,  that the poem seems to contain a touch of sarcasm in it.

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love; by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by: Sir. Walter Raleigh. The purpose of this writing is to compare and contrast the two speakers point of view in the poem. I will also be discussing the four major themes of the: Passionate Shepherd To His Love and The Nymph's reply To The Shepherd, such as nature, love, material world, and time. I will be using evidence and lines from the two pastoral poems to help support my answers.

Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard” uses similar imagery, but their different tones demonstrate the opposing views of how romantic and ironic the two poems are. Both of the poems are expressed through the tone of their speakers expressing their thoughts. In “The Passionate Shepard “the young man is expressing his love to this young lady who he would love to be with. He is very sincere in what he is saying to the woman and is trying his best to swoop her off her feet. In Raleigh’s Nymph the speaker is tone is very contradicting toward what is being said in Marlow’s Passionate Shephard.

Pastoral convention has been used in literature as far back as Homer. (“Pastoral: Poetic Term”) The technique features an idealized portrayal of rural life and scenery. It was extremely popular during the XVI century. In his poem “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love,” Christopher Marlowe uses this convention heavily; this incited the writings of numerous response poems, which ranged from humorous parodies to equally rosy replies on behalf of the shepherd’s lover. One such response is “The Nymph’s Reply” written by Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh’s poem features a blatant difference in tone from Marlowe’s, as the nymph denies the shepherd’s unblushing declaration of love by rephrasing all the shepherd’s statements in realistic terms.

Nature has different representations for these three poets; Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", Sir Walter Raleigh "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd", and William Carlos William "Raleigh was Right". The way these men use structure and irony to support the central idea of each of their poems. Their views on nature differ, but is interesting to see three different views during different time periods.

Adam himself being lonely and destitute was paired with Eve to share in all life 's joys and tribulations. Many would agree that life is best spent in the company of another and without companionship, our existence would be dull and wearisome. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe is a pastoral poem published in 1599 where a man attempts to find companionship because he is lonely. Marlowe creates a majestic rural world encompassed by natural beauty in which the Shepherd attempts to court a presumably young woman. The Nymph 's reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh was written in response to The Passionate Shepherd to His Love in 1600, one year after its publication. This Story takes place in the same area as the previous poem but is now narrated by the Shepherds love interest rather than the Shepherd himself. With both poems having different speakers insight is gained into the thought process of both the Nymph and the Sheppard. Using this information it can be ascertained that the Nymph and the Shappard are incompatible because they have different viewpoints on love and its obtainment. The Shepherd does not offer acceptable terms to the Nymph, his principles are inconsistent with her own, and he is a romantic while she is a realist. One desires the life of those in the garden of Eden while the other denies its existence.

Christopher Marlowe is a very accomplished writer that has been an unquestionable influence on play writing. He wrote poems that are still as popular and relevant today as they were back when Marlowe wrote them (Leech). Marlowe’s writing career was a short-lived on that lasted only six years as a result of his short-lived life because he died at the young age of just twenty-nine (Leech). He writing career might have then cut short but it was a strong and influential one than was full of experiential writing and memorable text (“Christopher Marlowe Biography”). Marlowe was negatively affected by others around him as a result of the desire to be loved and accepted by others around him and it ended in his demise.

The passionate Shepard is being read as if it’s being spoken by a shepherd who’s talking to the love of his life. Knowing that the speaker in the poem is a shepherd already gives me an imaginary in my head, but it’s enhanced by the visual descriptions given in the poem. Without the use of words, such as “we will all the pleasure prove that valleys, groves, hills and field woods, or steep mountain yield, I wouldn’t have such a clear image about where the shepherd is. The use of language and imagery and knowing who the speaker is does help me to understand the poem better, because now I understand why to show his passion he is offering her posies, a gown of wool, and valleys. Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” was a bit easier to read aloud because the words flowed easier for me. I that’s because it had an easier rhyme scheme than Shakespeare 18th sonnet, which I had to read three times so it didn’t sound as foreign to me. The tone of the poem isn’t forceful, but it’s also not light, there is a fever to the way he is trying to convince the women to become his lover. The things he promises her in the beginning of the poem sound light and sweet, but toward the end the tone becomes more passionate. The tone and rhyme scheme are important to the poem because they help set the mood for the reader and help the reader understand what the poem means or is attempting to say. The

Debora B. Schwartz in her article, "Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Comedy" highlights the fact that the major themes which are typically discussed in pastoral poetry include: "love and seduction;… the corruption of the city or court vs. the ‘purity’ of idealized country life…" (par. 2). In the poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," the theme of the "'purity' of idealized country life" is explored when the male persona attempts to use words which conjure up images of an paradise which he and his love interest can escape to sexually gratify each other. The male persona entices his love interest to "come live" with him and be his love (l. 1). He desires that he and his lover's "prove" the various "pleasures" that "woods or steepy mountain yields" (ll. 2, 4). This argument is rebuffed by the female persona in the poem, "The Nymph's Reply to Her Husband," when she states the following: "Time drives the flocks from field to fold, /When rivers rage and rocks grow cold" (ll. 5-6). It should be noted that these lines reflect the following lines of Marlowe's poem: "And we will sit upon the rocks, / seeing the shepherds feed their flocks/ by shallow rivers…" (ll. 5-7). The female persona undermines the shepherd's idealization of the countryside and pastoral life since the passage of time, depicted by the seasons, will change the characteristics of these things described so positively by the male persona in Marlowe's poem.

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a kind of peaceful sonnet made by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. This sonnet involves shepherds and nation life. This sonnet was composed in a shepherd's field or settings. The data given is about the speaker who is a shepherd and thinks hopefully and impractically. Before Christopher Marlowe could print his work he had begun accepting different reactions about and towards his work., One such reaction was composed by Sir Walter Raleigh in his lyric 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd' which was an immediate reaction to 'The Passionate shepherd to His Love' by Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe does not put much accentuation much on the character or setting yet more on the claim that the shepherd is endeavoring to make to the young lady. The exceptional topic of this work is of joy and optimistic love (Raleigh 4). Carpe Diem was an acknowledged topic in sonnets of this period, and this portrays as a topic. The speaker asserts his adoration to live with him and advantage from the fulfillments of the day.