As You Like It, The Passionate shepherd to His Love, and The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

A Comparison of 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' and 'The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd'

It is within his experience of living in a remote area in the ruthless desert, that Abbey first-hand experiences this nostalgia of the wildness within us, when he experiments and tests his survival skills by killing a rabbit with a stone. As a person who values the lives of every critter, whether he dislikes like them or not, Abbey questions himself and his ability to fend for himself. Testing his self-reliance capabilities, through the act of throwing a stone and successfully making his kill, he acknowledges his primal, animalistic self that lies inherently within him: “For a moment I am shocked by my deed; I stare at the quiet rabbit, his glazed eyes, his blood drying in the dust. Something vital is lacking. But the shock is succeeded by a mild elation” (34). But Abbey isn’t done, as Abbey tries to feel guilty about his deed, but in his attempt he fails to and reflects to himself on his consciousness “I examine my soul: white as snow: white as snow. Check my hands: not a trace of blood. No longer do I feel isolated from the sparse and furtive life around me, a stranger from another world. I have entered into this one. We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey” (34). Completely satisfied with his results, he walks away contently without remorse. In this instance, Abbey tests the concept of the

Pastoral societies differed from their agricultural because pastoral societies supported less people, since they had generally less productive economies, and the lived in scattered areas. They also generally offered women higher status, fewer restrictions, and a greater role in public life because they were needed, since people did not tend to specialize in things. Pastoral societies were also far more mobile, whereas in agricultural societies, people would have large populations because of their environment and their ability to grow food. They also lived in one area, and had had people who specialized in different things which brought down the status of women.

In the play, As You Like It written by William Shakespeare, as well as the short story “Let Me Promise You” by Morley Callaghan, both playwright, and author are trying to convey the idea of a strong emotional bond between certain characters. In Shakespeare’s play, we see how Celia and Rosalind, two cousins, have been inseparable ever since a young age and will do anything for one another. In Callaghan’s short story, Alice has strong feelings towards George, waits restlessly by the window, and despite their differences, she still tries to please him. The theme that these two works show is unconditional love. The playwright and author are trying to illustrate what one will do for another even though the situation and conditions might be though.

The nature imagery used expresses the flaws of Puritan thought and anxieties towards outside forces, both seen and unseen. Through his use of nature imagery and diction, the reader obtains a better understanding of such Puritan anxiety within the community as they try to maintain their utopian society from collapsing to these supernatural forces caused by an irritated and vengeful Devil.

Inherent within humanity is the need to belong, in which an individual must accept one another in order to achieve a greater sense of connectedness and identity. This is firstly evident in Shakespeare's As You Like It whereby the ideas of love are used to reveal how relationships are fundamental to one's sense of belonging. Act 1 Scene 3 explores belonging and not belonging through love and nature as it establishes the plot at the mark of separation from court and country by Rosalind and Celia breaking the sense of belonging to place. Celia and Rosalind convey a strong bond evident in Celia’s plea to her father, Duke Frederick, to keep Rosalind at court rather than banishing her to the Forest of Arden. Conventions of love are evident

said to her was true she would live with him and be his love. However

One of the principle tenets of the pastoral tradition is the ardently expressed admiration for the unique skills, knowledge and backbreaking labor required by

Throughout the novel, there is this constant battle between the unnatural and the natura,while the monster is repulsive, Natures is happy and soothing.and the one should be careful when pouring forbidden knowledge. Death,and despair force the character to embark in desperate journeys. During his travels , the only relief that comes the character's way is from Nature. Throughout the novel its natural surroundings have been shown to have therapeutic powers on the characters. Nature has the power to put humanity back into someone who the unnatural or science world has taken his sanity .

Nature: The Shepherd has a very unrealistic view of nature, in his mind he believes that nature will always be beautiful and full of-of sunshine, and clear skies. But in reality nature will not always be wonderful and happy, and full of rainbows; nature and things around the Shepherd will change. But the shepherd has this tunnel vision of nature where nothing ever changes, he also always draws back to nature when he’s telling the Nymph of all the good times there have.

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander of love’s complications in an exchange with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). Although the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream certainly deals with the difficulty of romance, it is not considered a true love story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfolds the story, intentionally distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can caricature the anguish and burdens endured by the lovers. Through his masterful use of figurative language, Shakespeare examines the theme of the capricious and irrational nature of love.

The Emotional versus the Rational: A Literary Analysis and Comparison between Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to Her Shepherd” and Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

A pastoral lifestyle (see pastoralism) shows the relation between man and a nature, it is the lifestyle in which shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land in changing seasons. It is the name of the genre of literature in which art and music that depicts such life in an idealized manner, classically for urban audiences. A pastoral as a genre, also known as bucolic, it is from the Greek, meaning a cowherd.[1][2]. Traditionally, pastoral refers to the representation of the lives of herdsmen in very romanticized and exaggerated way.

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.

The passionate shepherd to His love poem is a poem that portrays the basic romanticizing of the country living which describes the nature of the environments and is very sentimental. Christopher’s poem is showing the best fantasy of ordinary romance that would be much better felt in the countryside other than the urban side of the country. Nature is of the essence. The nymph's reply to the shepherd Poem, on the other hand, is based on how he perceives the passionate shepherds to his love. Sir Walter has a different perception of the nature romantics; he presents a contrast in his poem. Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh are having a dialogue which is contradictory dialogue.