How Does Marlowe Use Pastoral Conventions

“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.

Summary: “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh’s response to a poem written by Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” In the Marlowe poem, the shepherd proposes to his beloved by portraying their ideal future together: a life filled with earthly pleasures in a world of eternal spring. Raleigh’s reply, however, debunks the shepherd’s fanciful vision. While Marlowe’s speaker promises nature’s beauty and a litany of gifts, Raleigh’s nymph responds that such promises could only remain valid “if all the world and love were young.” Thus, she introduces the concepts of time and change. In her world, the seasons cause the shepherd’s “shallow rivers”

Imagery is another means by which theme is portrayed. Both authors utilize images related to nature that highlight its special and specific aspects that aid their own personal, respective ‘arguments’. Marlowe utilizes figures of beauty, flowers, opposed to Donne’s metaphorical symbolism of a stream alive with fish - competition. Marlowe creates a picturesque paradise filled with “…beds of roses”, yet again fails to identify the flaws associated with beauty. Just as marriage can spawn conflicts and create internal turmoil and unrest, underneath the bed of roses lay thorns. Also, from hearing Marlowe’s inflated descriptions one might think the Shepherd actually lives in the Garden of Eden. Alas, nothing is perfect, not even Adam and Eve creatures God (perfect?) himself created. Marlowe’s vivid depictions of nature are not necessarily inaccurate, but rather one-dimensional and possibly biased. Donne’s illustration of a stream inhabited by fish is one of similar natural derivation, yet better portrays the struggles and competition nature creates. Every fish seems to be working toward the common goal of the whole, yet only a limited number can physically achieve this goal. Those who outlast the “angling reeds” and “shells and weeds”, the elite, will be rewarded. This success requires the utmost degree of focus, resilience and

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.

By looking closely at both poems, you can see that Marlowe’s poem is based on the Shepherd confessing his love to a woman and Sir Raleigh’s poem is based on the response from the woman. Both Writers used the flock of sheep in their poem, Marlowe wrote “And we set upon the rock/ seeing shepherds feed their flocks” and in response from Sir Raleigh the woman says “Time drives the flocks from field the fold”. The “love” the shepherd has for her is more like lust than love. The shepherd is not thinking about the future and what is to come to him, he is just living in the moment. So when he said they would sit and look at the flock he did not take into consideration that as time passes the flock begins to move to different fields, as will his feelings.

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.

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” poem is a poem that portrays the basic romanticism of the country living which describes the nature of the environments and is very sentimental. Christopher Marlowe’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 Shepherd to His Love.” Raleigh has a different perception of the nature romantics; he presents a contrast in his poem. However, they’re still examples of beautiful poetry because of THESIS STATEMENT Marlowe and Raleigh have a contradictory

In this poem, the special event is on the looks in the eyes of the lovers, the words they speak to each other, and the embraces they attempt to do. The realistic touches (such as Leander attempting, by sophistry, to convince Hero to sleep with him) are charming, and remind the reader that these two are not simply iconic lovers from the distant past. Hero and Leander are compelling because their reactions (even the less-than-truthful words of Hero, as she attempts to hold off Leander) are innocent and based on universal human emotions. Marlowe took a story from Greek myths intact, but made the characters believable for the audiences during the Elizabethan

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