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    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

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    German Shepherds at Work Have you ever wondered what German Shepherds do other than play fetch, eat, and sleep? Most people that own dogs teach them to sit, stay, come, and they also teach them to obey their owners. They are the family pets that sit on our laps all the time, bark at people when they come to the door, and chase the mailman in the summer when the family is outside. Work dogs have jobs such as being police dogs, military dogs, guide dogs, and herding dogs. The German shepherd

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    2017 German Shepherds vs. Rottweiler According to Krishna Ramanujan, dogs were first domesticated between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago (Ramanujan, par. 1). Dogs are more than just animals and pets. They possess many great qualities that make them much more than that. They also make great friends. Two of the most popular dog breeds are German Shepherds and Rottweilers. German Shepherds and Rottweilers both have qualities that make them great for families. German Shepherds are amongst the

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    This is the intro on the two stories. One story is The Passionate Shepherd and the other poem is called The Nymph’s Reply. And later on in the essay ima talk about are they compare and how they contrast and how they symbol each other. Also I am going to talk about how both of these stories symbolize love. In the poem of The Passionate Shepherd, this poem is containing to about happiness and living a nice life and loving everyone that’s surrounded by you. The poem shows that kind of love by how the

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    "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a kind of peaceful sonnet made by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. This sonnet involves shepherds and nation life. This sonnet was composed in a shepherd's field or settings. The data given is about the speaker who is a shepherd and thinks hopefully and impractically. Before Christopher Marlowe could print his work he had begun accepting different reactions about and towards his work., One such reaction was composed by Sir Walter Raleigh

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    The Seducing Shepherd “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

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    Many Renaissance are written in an idealistic setting instead of a realistic setting. This is the pastoral tradition, a glorification of the simple and little pleasures of life in the countryside. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” demonstrates that “Renaissance poetry is interested not in representational accuracy but in the magical power of exquisite workmanship to draw its readers into fabricated worlds” (Greenblatt 371). Marlowe’s poem clearly shows that poems are meant

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    “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”. There are differences and similarities in love, nature, time, and the material world between to the two poems. 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

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    existence would be dull and wearisome. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe is a pastoral poem published in 1599 where a man attempts to find companionship because he is lonely. Marlowe creates a majestic rural world encompassed by natural beauty in which the Shepherd attempts to court a presumably young woman. The Nymph 's reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh was written in response to The Passionate Shepherd to His Love in 1600, one year after its publication. This

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    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

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