The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

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    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 have a lot of mutual feelings

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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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    Throughout The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph’s Reply to The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh, both of these poets propose opposing viewpoints on love, nature, time, and the material world. Throughout the poems, you can look at how each thing that they say are pretty different from one another. The way that these authors propose their feelings can change the way that you feel towards these things as well. Most of all, their point of views contrast with each

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    between a parent and a child. The Fairie Queene focuses on the use of sexual desires to demonstrate temptations. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” though written by two different authors, both consider the promises of the Shepherd to the Nymph if she were to become his “love”, with no mention of marriage, as well as the Nymph’s reply that the Shepherd’s promises will not last. This theme of mortality is similarly apparent in Shakespeare’s Sonnets12, 18, 30

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    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

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    The Passionate Shepherd

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    Passionate Shepherd To His Love” and ¨ The Nymphś Reply To The Shepherd¨, both have to do with one another. “The Nymphś Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh's response to Christopher Marlowe's poem ¨ The Passionate Shepherd To His Love”. In Marlowe's poem, he speaks of a very optimistic view of love and the world and offers the nymph a carefree life where it seems time never passes and spring never ends. In Raleigh's poem, he speaks on the realism that comes with what the shepherd is offering

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    born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists. Poem: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy

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    The Passionate Shepherd

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    Taking place during spring under multiple weather conditions the comparisons made between the poems “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh both share the similar motives of a Shepherd attaining love in a relationship through different scenarios. However, the overall message of love differs between the authors by the difference in their tone. The incorporation of iambic tetrameter in both poems proves vital to the

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    Christopher Marlowe’s poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is widely understood to be a combination of pastoral and carpe diem poetry that invites its subject, with the incentives of gifts and paradise, to join its speaker in a natural utopia—it embodies the trend of poetry and invention through pastoral imagination. In comparison, Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd” is on the side of reason and philosophy, widely recognized as a refuting reply that uses Marlowe’s own structure against

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    rotten. This poem takes place in the winter time where everything is getting punished and nothing can survive. Sir Walter Raleigh is trying to portray that countrysides are not alway too good to be true but they can be not pleasant to look at. The shepherd was trying to have it great and beautiful but if it is unpleasant to look at the nymph has a pretty easy choice. This happens a lot today. People try to look great on the outside but in reality they are a mess inside and they need help. This is where

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