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    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd: A comparison ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ was written by Christopher Marlowe. The poem describes a shepherd’s plea to someone he loves urging them to live with him. Marlowe uses imagery to describe the scenery around the shepherd and his love. The shepherd tries to convince her how happy they will be, surrounded by “mountain yields” and “groves” in stanza one. Marlowe does not only use imagery in his

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    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

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    and linguistic techniques how love is presented in “The Perils Of Intimacy” and “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love” Written in two completely different time periods, both texts clearly address the theme of love and the connotations surrounding it in mainly two diverse ways. “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love” arguably has the main theme of male dominance, which is ultimately prominent throughout the poem, and how gender ultimately feeds into the experience of love. Composed in the 16th century

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    the poems “The Passionate Shepherd to his love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” we see these two types of people interact with one and another through letters as one expresses his love and the other rejects it. We see how the Shepherd views the world and the blossoming of love and we see the Nymph’s view of the world and her skeptical view on love. The story of these two poems start with the declaration of love from the Shepherd within “The Passionate Shepherd to his love,” with the first

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    Comparison of 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' and 'The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd' In Elizabethan times poetry was a very important part of Elizabethan life. Elizabeth 1st adored plays and poetry and was a major patron, meaning that in a way she encouraged sponsorship of the writers and poets of her time, so that they were encourage to perform and write. These two poems are examples of pastoral poetry, a form of poetry that deals with the lives of shepherds and shows a

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    Poems Analysis Chistopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love was composed by Christopher Marlowe in 1599. Scholars often create a controversy pertaining to the exact genre of the poem. While many argue that the poem assumes pastoral characteristics, an equal number maintain that it is a love poem. Notwithstanding the conflict, the poem demonstrates a masterfully selected topic and diction, which combined with imagery as well as prosody, imparts

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    Compare And Contrast Esay 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

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    Elizabethan Era author and playwright, Christopher Marlowe, was a romantic writer who came before his time. Being born hundreds of years before the romantic period - around 300 to be exact, his poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” could have and would have fallen perfectly within the style of the romantic time period. In the poem, the shepherd beckons to his love, who has not yet accepted his advances. He entices her with promises of lush fields, beds of roses and the opportunity to dance

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    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

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    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

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