The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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

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 the shepherd’s unblushing declaration of love by rephrasing all the shepherd’s

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 sun is shining bright

to the Shepherd”, by Sir Walter Raleigh, is the response to "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe’s poem was about a shepherd who promises many things to a lady if she becomes his love. This poem is the reply to Marlowe’s poem and takes whatever argument Marlowe put forth as the shepherd and rebuff it, essentially rejecting the shepherd’s confession. Raleigh uses metaphors, imagery and symbolism to strengthen and support the nymph’s response to the shepherd. Raleigh

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

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 version of the

The two poems of “The Passionate Shepherd” and “The Nymph’s Reply” show contrasting views on love, nature, time, and the material world. “The Passionate Shepherd” shows more about a positive and naive view while in contrast, “The Nymph’s Reply” is more about a negative and realistic view. The shepherd gave details that idealized the natural world while the nymph criticized his ideal world. According to the shepherd, love is innocent. In his eyes, nothing will ever change or be unpleasant. When he

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

In 1600, Sir Walter Raleigh wrote The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, in response to Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. In his response poem, Raleigh takes on the perspective of the woman being spoken to in Marlowe’s poem and uses his language against him as a way of rejecting the romanticized proposal to run away to the countryside and be his love. Through his poem, Raleigh uses a more realistic tone than Marlowe, expressing that the ideal rustic life he describes will change

no matter how long you’ve waited for the one you love because if you really love that person you’re willing to wait for him/her no matter what happened. In the shepherd’s desperation, he resorts to materialism as he believes this is the only way his love will be returned. However, the nymph in "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" is not so easily seduced by such attractive images, pointing out that "flowers do fade" and all of the things the shepherd promises "Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten