Analysis Of The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

The structure of this poem is rather notable. It mimics the structure of a Clare sonnet, fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, AABBCCDDEEFFGG rhyme scheme. Both Italian and Shakespearean sonnets tended to be love poems. However, the Clare sonnet doesn’t quite fit properly with either, it’s a touch more simplistic in nature, which lends this poem something akin to irony. This poem isn’t simply a love poem, it’s poem about the frustration of love along with being a cautionary tale. It has a more

Like every marketed love story out there, the poem starts off with two souls who secretly admire each other, yet are too afraid to admit it. In a society that at that time would quite possibly think

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.

“To my Dear and Loving Husband” written by Anne Bradstreet, is the story of a woman admiring love for her husband. On the other hand, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” written by William Shakespeare, is the story of the love a man feels for an imperfect woman. Although the two poems are about love, they interpret it in different ways through rhythmic structure, and emotional expression. “To my Dear and Loving Husband” has an impeccable rhythmic alignment. It starts with repeating “if ever” three times in the first three lines.

I think that any woman would feel offended if a man who supposedly professes his love would be as shameless as to write a poem as such inspired by her. Yet towards the end, Shakespeare changes his tone describing what he feels to be a rare kind of love. In definition, there are many different meanings to the word love. Among them, the two most common definitions are a profound, passionate affection towards another, and a sexual desire. Shakespeare’s poem refers to his mistress being everything but graceful.

He did this because in Marlowe poem, the shepherd says “That hills and valley, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield”. (Marlowe Lines 16) In this line Marlowe is saying that where you think you find nature. In Raleigh’s poem the nymph’s says “Is fancy spring, but sorrows fall”. (Raleigh Lines 12)

Another theme emphasized in the story is emotion, exhibited by the Lord and Lady of May. Reminiscent of many English Romantic poems, the idea of “love conquers all” is reflected on the thoughts, decisions and actions the

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The poem, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, by Sir Walter Raleigh, is the response to "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe’s poem was about a shepherd who promises many things to a lady if she becomes his love. This poem is the reply to Marlowe’s poem and takes whatever argument Marlowe put forth as the shepherd and rebuff it, essentially rejecting the shepherd’s confession. Raleigh uses metaphors, imagery and symbolism to strengthen and support the nymph’s response to the shepherd.

He also believes that love and nature will last forever. In line 21-22 it says, “The shepherd's swains shall dance and sing for thy delight each may morning”. Implying that there will not be an end to their love. In the “The Nymph’s reply to the shepherd”, a reply poem, the author takes a more realistic approach to how love, nature, time, and the material

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.

Pastoral poetry is a lyric poem that idealizes nature while criticizing urban life.These two pastoral poems are example of the contrast between the easygoing countryside and the hustle bustle of a city. In the famous pastoral poetry, “The Passionate Shepherd to his love,” the Shepherd happily describes the beautiful natural image of a perfect life. He wholeheartedly believes that love is always joyful and nothing can ruin the serenity. This poem is criticized for its deluded perspective by the Nymph in a taunting way. She mocks his fantasy life that has everlasting flowers, melodious birds and finest wool gown. The Nymph’s view on her ideal love is infinite, nonmaterialistic and realistic which contradicts the Shepherd’s view on ideal love—youthful, acquisitive, and blinding; these incompatible views tear a relationship into pieces especially when the problem is addressed in a cynical tone.

Pastoral poetry came into place during Queen Elizabeth's reign. Pastoral poems, is a form of poetry that deals with the lives of shepherds and shows a contrast between the innocence and simplicity of rural life compared with the city life. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a type of pastoral poem composed by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. This poem entails shepherds and the country life. This poem was written in a shepherd’s point of view who thinks idealistically and romantically. Marlowe, received many responses to his poem; one being from his friend Sir Raleigh Walter. Raleigh in his poem ‘The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd‘ is a direct response to ‘The Passionate shepherd to His Love.’Marlowe emphasized on the claim that the shepherd is attempting to woo the young woman through his pleasure and idealistic love but overall does not reach his purpose through the invention, arrangement, and appeal which is brought to light by Raleigh.

Melodious birds, a bed a roses, a gown made of the finest wool- who could turn down such an offer? If the speaker is to give his Love all that he can, then that must, surely, be love. That is what the Marlowe tries to convey in The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. The speaker paints an ideal picture of how their love will be and how if what he says appeals to his interest then they must come and be with him. This thought is explicitly represented in the final couplet of the poem, it says, “If these delights thy mind may move,/ Then live with me and be my love.” His love is persuasive. He wants the interest to consider the best of what it could be. We then see a response from Raleigh through his poem The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd. In almost a form of mockery, Raleigh’s poem blatantly contradicts Marlowe’s. Raleigh uses his piece as a representation of real love, rather than ideal. He not only mimics the style of writing, but also