Shepherd Essay

Both “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “A Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” work to develop an overarching theme that possessing a superficial faith in youth and beauty, will ultimately lead to one's damnation. “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” is a response written by Walter Raleigh with the intention of mocking the ideas in Christopher Marlowe’s poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”. Marlowe’s poem depicts a young shepherd attempting to seduce his love by enticing her with an impractical

going to be concentrating on the two poems The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd differences and similarities on a few things: Love, Nature, Time, and the Material World. What I've seen is that the two poems are complete polar opposites and offset each other. The Shepherd is a perfect dream where nothing ends or love dies. The Nymph is striking back at him with reality and with doubt about what the Shepherd is telling her. My first comparison is between the similarities

and different cultures. Thanks to this, poems that are up to five centuries old are still relevant on present time. Some poems that could greatly help support this argument wold be the following : “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe, “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, and “Raleigh Was Right” by William Carlos William. Williams uses Raleigh and Marlowe's ideas of love lasting, or not lasting and transforms them into a larger idea of life in the country

“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

happiness, one starts realizing what really matters and what doesn’t. Christopher Marlowe’s “ The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” shows how the shepherd is trying to get his love to go with him by offering her tremendous gifts. He promises to give her gifts that would please her and to prove that he will do anything for her. On the other hand, Sir Walter Raleigh’s “ The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” basically turns down the shepherd’s offer and explains that material gifts just give off temporary happiness

is something that many people desire. It is not entirely just about the love of a lover but can also be about the love of a parent or sibling. Marlowe’s poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” deals with love. He wishes for the love of a woman and promises her many things. Raleigh’s poem, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” and Williams’s “Raleigh was Right,” deals with love but it talks about how love does not entirely last through time. Marlowe’s poem, written in 1599, was followed a year later

The poems “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, “The Nymph’s Reply to The Shepherd”, and “Raleigh Was Right” by Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Carlos Williams, respectively, all share and develop a commentary of the ephemeral nature of the world around us, revealing what they believe serves as impermanent pleasures in an impermanent life. While Marlowe’s poem has a different view than the other two poems, it is here the theme of experiencing the good parts of life, and more

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

the two books, The Way of The Shepherd (chapters 5 and 6) and Leadership in Nursing Practice (chapters11, 12, and 14) focus on the several aspects related to caring and managing a staff as a leader. There are several key points that the two books have similarities and several points where there are differences. Among the similarities include, the figurative use of the “staff” for directing the herd of a sheep in the chapter five of the book The Way of The Shepherd, which possibly the same principles

poem trying to say literally? First of all we have “they”, who seems to be a shepherd who tend to sheep, “They say to their sheep, a simple front. Lead them down the surely green path.” They seem to take good care of their flock, however, something seems wrong, especially if they are leading their sheep into oblivion. Suddenly we are in a land of everlasting dawn, a seeming paradise, but we soon learn that these shepherds are being tormented by fallen angels and will be tormented forever. Of course