The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

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

The speakers in Marlowe’s “Passionate Shepherd” and Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply” have different views of love. The shepherd believes that love is a pleasurable emotion that should only be experienced in nature. This concept of love is illustrated in the verses “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.” (lines 1-4). He wants to, ensure that love is forever lasting, it will always be around and

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh are two of numerous, prominent poems in the late sixteenth century. Both were written between 1590 and 1600, however, the exact years for each are somewhat ambiguous. Raleigh’s “The Passionate Shepherd . . . ” is classified as a pastoral poem due to its depiction of a natural setting and is also considered to be perhaps the most famous of all English pastoral works. Likewise

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

Difference between “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh are pastorals that express the author's’ feelings and thoughts about nature of love. These two poems differ with each other in their tone,imagery and point of view. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, Christopher Marlowe shows his idea that love is a passion expressed by material

unrealistic, however, Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd was more direct. Sylvia Plath’s sixains and uneven lines contradicted the speaker’s view that love is disorderly. The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd followed the Iambic pentameter that complimented the speaker’s argument that of why love is incredulous between an immortal and a mortal. Through tone, symbolism, imagery, and worldview Sir Walter Raleigh manages to present the Nymph’s attitude toward love in a artistic and effective

idealized portrayal of rural life and scenery. It was extremely popular during the XVI century. In his poem “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love,” Christopher Marlowe uses this convention heavily; this incited the writings of numerous response poems, which ranged from humorous parodies to equally rosy replies on behalf of the shepherd’s lover. One such response is “The Nymph’s Reply” written by Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh’s poem features a blatant difference in tone from Marlowe’s, as the nymph denies

occur between the poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph to the Shepherd.” These differences are mostly with themes, imagery, and diction. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” was written by Christopher Marlowe and it was the first written of the two poems. “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” was written in response to that poem, but it was written by Sir Walter Raleigh. The themes to these two poems vary greatly. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” carries the theme that love

Spenser, and Marlowe all contributed to the shaping of the time period. Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" portrays one of the typical love poems that can be seen from the Renaissance. A man is in search of the love of another girl, or woman. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a poem in response to this passage of Marlowe's entitled "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." Although the name of the girl is not stated anywhere in the former poem, Raleigh decided to use a wood

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