Comparing The Passionate Shepherd To His Love And Sir Walter Raleigh's

“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

In the poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, love is a big part of the poem. The author talks about love being able to be bought, “And I will make thee beds roses,”. The author expresses love through materialism, “A gown made of the finest wool,”. The poem “The Nymph’s Reply to The Shepherd”, love is not everlasting “Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,”. The author believes that love cannot solve anything, “Has joy no date nor age no need”.

In 1599, Christopher Marlowe wrote a poem called “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” This poem has a very idealistic or optimistic point of view, as the shepherd asks his love to come live a simple life with him in the country. Marlowe uses diction and imagery to portray a simple but beautiful and fulfilling life for his love, if only she chooses to come live with him. In response to Marlowe’s poem, in 1600, Sir Walter Ralegh wrote “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.” In contrast to Marlowe’s poem, Ralegh’s poem has a very realistic point of view. Ralegh uses diction and imagery to show how empty the shepherd’s promises are to his “love.” Although these two poems correspond and use the same elements to get their point across, they could

Marlowe’s poem speaks of praises and lavish gifts for his love in an attempt to capture her attention and admiration. The narrator speaks of the life they will live together in harmony with nature and with one another. Donne’s poem seems to be a warning to the narrator instead of Raleigh’s poem which is a response to the narrator’s request from a young lady.

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.

It was not in fashion to write poems to one’s wife. It could even be debated whether love could ever have a place in marriage; the typical situation in which a ‘courtly lover’ found himself was to be plunged in a secret, an illicit, and even an adulterous passion for some seemingly unattainable and pedestalized lady… the most beautiful of absolute disasters, an agony as much desired as bemoaned … This was not in theory the attitude of a husband to his wife. It was for a husband to command, for a wife to obey (12).

Although Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" was written some time after "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", both contain many similarities. Most evident is that both are carpe diem poems that exhort the reader. One similarity between the two poems is the theme of exaggeration to convince the beloved. The hyperbole in Marlowe's poem being "And a thousand fragrant posies" and "But thirty thousand to the rest" in Marvell's. Both of these lines illogically exaggerate amounts to show how much the beloved means to the reader in an attempt to convince them to act. Marvell's approach in exhorting is to convince the beloved that time and eventually death is inevitable. The speaker's statement, "But at my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying

Robert Browning is a very interesting character with quite odd dramatic poems. Browning wrote in the era we call The Victorian. Robert wrote about poems in which to this day are very memorable and unforgettable. One poem is called My Last Duchess, in which a man has lost his wife and chooses to find a new one with different personal characteristics. No one knows what happened to his wife, after commands from the Duke she was gone. A rather more disturbing poem is titled, Porphyria's Lover in which the male character strangles the a girl because it was what she wanted. My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover are two dramatic monologues that have some similarities and differences that make one wonder.

Poems always seem to incorporate love and nature as if they’re connected somehow. In the poems “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, and “Raleigh was Right” they all seem to share a common theme and central idea. That idea they all share is mainly on how they use words of love or in some cases nature in it’s natural state to show signs of affection or rejection. The key aspect discussed in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is how the two people in the poem have a lot of mutual feelings toward each other. In Line 1 it says ,”Come live with me and be my endearment.

Sir Walter Raleigh was brought to this world on January 22, 1552 (or 1554) in East Budleigh, United Kingdom. He died on October 22, 1618, in London, United Kingdom. Raleigh was a writer, poet, and an explorer. Went to Oxford University, then later on Raleigh went to London to study in the laws. On 1578, him and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, he’s an explorer and his half brother, sailed to America to find the colonies that are in America. Raleigh found the first English Colony in America on Roanoke Island, which is North Carolina, he discovered this in 1585. When he discovered the first colony in America, he brought back potatoes and tobacco to Britain, made smoking a popular thing. Also, Raleigh became a member of the parliament, was received extensive estate in Ireland. Then, Raleigh became Queen Elizabeth 1 favorite,

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.

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 great playwright Christopher Marlowe also wrote one of the most famous lyrical poems in British literature, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." In this pastoral portrait, Marlowe reveals the shepherd's desire for a certain young lady to be his love. In "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Sir Walter Raleigh voices the young lady's answer to this invitation. The two poems share the identical structures of rhyme scheme and meter. Also, the speakers share a similar desire for youthful love. However, these similarities are overshadowed by the differences in the author's backgrounds which, in turn, influence the starkly different characteristics of the speakers of the poems--their view of reality and their motive for love.

The second poem is another love poem ‘The Passionate Shepherd To His Love’ by Christopher Marlowe. There are many similarities and differences between the two poems. Both poems are love poems aimed at women, and both are trying to persuade. In ‘To His coy Mistress’ the poem is split into a thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis and is attempting t persuade a woman to give up her virginity. ‘Passionate Shepherd’ is set into a series of four line long stanzas which form an ideal rural world where a man wants his love to live with him.

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.