By seeing the title “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” you know that it is a response to someone or something that has already been written. In this case, it is true that this poem was a response to Christopher Marlowe's poem, “ The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”. Both Marlowe and Sir Raleigh have a different but unique way of writing which makes their poems very similar but not the same . As you read them both you will clearly understand the question being asked by Marlowe and the response from Sir Raleigh. These poems symbolize many of the same things just in different ways, with one being idealistic and one realistic. Both of these poems represent a point of views from each side of a proposal, even though they have some similar points, they are more different than similar. 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. The Shepherd believes that he is madly in love with her when he says ”Come with me and be my love,/ And we will all the pleasures prove”. But, not once did he did bring up how she is, which makes you believe that he did not want her for her but for her looks. As she gets older her looks will fade and return into dust, his love will fade because she does not look as she did the woman replys with “Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies /Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, / In folly ripe, in reason rotten.” Which is stating that all the materialistic stuff he is trying to tempt her with will fade and wither away just like his “love”. The woman knows the the “love” the Shepherd has for
“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.
Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a response to this poem in 1600 called "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." He uses the nymph as the speaker, responding to the shepherd. There are no clues to the setting or the nymph's physical appearance. The themes of this poem are doubt and the point that time changes things. The nymph thinks realistically and refutes the ideas of the idyllic world the shepherd had proposed to her. The shepherd seems to be very much of an optimist, whereas the nymph is very pessimistic. The structure of these two poems is exact. There are six stanzas consisting of four lines each. This shows that "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" is responding directly to the shepherd in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." In each ideal proposal he gives, she gives him the realistic answer to why they cannot be together.
G.M. Shepherds illustrates through Bill Cummings his central points on sport being taken too seriously in Australia. Shepherd uses Bill to demonstrate how sport can bring out the worst in someone; at Bills’ son, Nicks, football game, his “rabid” behaviour over his sons unpromising sports career implies how it is essential for boys to succeed in sport for their parents to be proud of them. Shepherd demonstrates the disregard of diversity in disciplines as a country by highlighting the seriousness Australians demonstrate in regards to sport, implying how Australia could become a greater country if it concentrated on other objectives as well as sport. Ultimately, Shepherd centrals his views around being an open minded
Marlowe’s perspective on nature is a rather positive one, and with the use of imagery and structure he explains to the reader why his perspective is so. This can be seen when Marlowe states “And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.” In the stanza that has been presented, Marlowe uses very delicate examples of nature to persuade the reader that nature can provide for humanity, as the examples make it seem as so. In addition Marlowe also uses a very calming rhyme scheme to support his perspective. He uses this to persuade the reader that that is what nature is, very calm and delicate. The use of rhyme scheme also allows for a very nice flow throughout the poem, giving the readers a more enjoyable experience when reading. With the use of both imagery and structure, Marlowe is easily able to support his perspective upon nature.
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.
The image presented her is quite sensual which was not openly discussed by the Puritans. Finally, she moves to the religious aspect and says that she cannot repay his love in any possible way. She can only pray that “heaven reward thee manifold” (Bradstreet 206), that he will receive his reward in heaven. She further says that they should love each other so much that even after they die their love should live
these two different situations have a lot in common. In one of the oldest poems
A flock of sheep wanders as the all-seeing shepherd meanders nearby. He watches them closely as they consume their daily vittles provided by nature, making sure not even one sheep goes astray, or that any predator comes to disrupt the supposed bliss. The shepherd's love for his flock is that of presumed perfection. He maintains the assumption that as long as he guards the flock and provides ample grazing land, the flock will provide him with copious amounts of wool: that their relationship will be all right. Unfortunately, this simply may not be true; his flock can produce the wool or it may suffer from an unexpected disease or any other ailment and their presumed relationship will fail. As Christopher Marlowe so elegantly presented in “The
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.
This poem shows many signs of fitting in with the Romantic period. One example is how Manfred denies any help the Abbot wants to give him. The abbot suggests that Manfred have his sins forgiven in order to find peace within the church. Manfred doesn't seem to care about this authority figure and what he has to offer. He wishes to find the solution on his own. Romantics believed the human mind is more important than the exterior. Also they were not into authority that imposed on someone. Both of these are helpful in understanding the scene with the Abbot.
The passionate Shepherd begins his poem with “Come live with me..,” a hopeful proposition that displays the Shepherd’s eagerness of living with his love for the rest of his live. Alliteration is used in the next line as he says, “And we will all the pleasures prove…”, to emphasize all the precious moments they'll experience together if she comes to live with him. The author, Marlowe in the final two lines of this stanza, records all the things the Nymph and the Shepherd will do together, and by listing them, he is making it appear as in fact that there is an astonishing assortment of scene to enjoy. The wrier characterizes the nature in such a emotional way that it makes them show up as in the event that they are in it or portion of it. The Shepherd sounds greatly positive all through the poem, in away that appears how beyond any doubt he has that the nymph would accept his offer.These zones he is listing are all sensational, normal pleasures and have not been changed by man, nothing is manufactured. When it says, “…or steepy mountain yields”, the Shepherd is appearing that there is an extra sense of flexibility and that together they will enjoy the common delights. He is forlorn and truly needs a companion that he can provide for. He guarantees to bring her numerous things, “And I will make thee beds of roses,” and “A
Christopher Marlowe, a 1500 poet, wrote many heartwarming poems, but I'm going to use “the passionate shepherd to his love” to compare to a modern day poet and R&B singer John Legend’s song All of me. Also to give a different view of style Ima add John Donne “the flea” in the mix. First of all, these pieces all have one common theme, love. The flea uses a lot of hidden meaning to express his love but also you get the idea he just wants a physical connection of love, sex. The imagery of “the flea” is more complex and creative than “the passionate shepherd to his love” and All of me. John D.
Marlowe had a very positive view on nature and his surroundings in regards to how beautiful and full of life it was. Marlowe conveys his feelings toward nature through his use of imagery and the structure of his poem. Structure is used throughout the body of Marlowe's poem which was created by six stanzas. Furthermore, Marlowe’s structure also consists of stressed and unstressed syllables which are emphasized in the first stanza “Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”. In the first stanza, Marlowe used stressed and unstressed syllables as a form of emphasising words like live, me, be, and love in order for him to be able to get his point across to his lover. Furthermore, Marlowe also suggested to the use of imagery within his poem by using words or
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.