The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Essay

The shepherd is romanticizing the idea of being in love and how it is all fine and dandy. In the first four lines of the poem the shepherd is trying to persuade his love to be with him when he says “Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that valleys, groves, hills, and fields, woods, or steepy

In the poems, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, a shepherd is asking a lady to come with him. He promises her gifts that can usually be found in nature but show real value to the shepherd. In the “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh and “Raleigh was right” by William Carlos Williams, they both talk about how nature or the countryside isn’t as great as people thing and it is as hard living there as it is everywhere else. All of the poets use the setting

approach with nature, while Raleigh and Williams have more of a negative and abrasive approach toward nature's role in providing. The three poets have came and showed their opinions through three individual poems. Marlowe, who wrote “The passionate Shepherd to his Love”, has a very positive connection to nature. In his poem he says “A cap of flowers, and a kirtle embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.”This means how he wants the kirtle embroidered all with the finest leaves of myrtle for his love. The

would also be wooing and doing whatever one possibly can to obtain their one true love. There are countless way to pursue someone, but a very common way is to bring gifts. In The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, it begins with, “ Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove.” The shepherd in this poem tries to entrance his love with the various gifts that he can create from the earth, which is all he can afford. They are the finest goods that he can possibly retrieve, and

During the Shakespearean period love was presented in several different ways. Love was sometimes portrayed as a war between two lovers and sometimes used to profess admiration to a lover. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare redefined what love poems were, by making his poem a parody of the conventional love poems that were written by poets in the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Prior to this poem, love poems were praised for their romantic appeals where more often than not they praised women for their beauty

Different types of literature can be defined by the era in which they were written. Even the writers themselves were influenced by their surroundings during the time. Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the most famous writers of all-time, but although we know much about his work, we know every little about the man himself. Religion was a major influence in many works during Medieval Times. Out of the Elizabethan era came Shakespeare, and the Victorian era followed by providing entertainment for both

Over the course of the past 16 weeks, I have learned so much about literature. I’ve realized that there are countless different ways to interpret a piece of writing, countless ways to write a story, and so much more to literature than what first meets the eye. My reading choices are more broad because of the requirements of this class, and that is something that I am thankful for. I am not going to sugarcoat it, I was not looking forward to this class because reading really isn’t something I enjoy

Throughout the sixteenth century Satire was used as a method of both exposing and correcting vice. Isabella Whitney, the first known woman in England to publish a volume of poetry, wrote several satirical works. Throughout the duration of this course, although on the syllabus, satire was never discussed. Whitney used satire to write her two final poems “A Communication Which the Author had to London Before She Made Her Will” and “The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those

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