"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" (Christopher Marlowe) and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (Sir Walter Raleigh) are both wonderful poems that state that love can have many different perspectives. They both emphasize that these two characters love each other, and that they have intense feelings for each other. Although they emphasize the same thing, they both have many differences. Not only that, but the poems also have things that are absent from each other. Marlowe's poem has many things absent from Raleigh's poem.
The two poems have many things that are absent from each other. Raleigh's poem lacks physical attraction to the male from the female, while Marlowe's poem lacks emotional love for the female. Raleigh's poem is more of a reality check for the couple wrote about. "If all the world and love were young..." (Sir Walter Raleigh); that states that the female knows that the male is only attracted to her physical body and not her emotional love. Although these poems have absences of one another, they emphasize the same major points.
Raleigh and Marlowe both emphasize the same statement in their poems. …show more content…
As stated in Marlowe's poem "And I will make the beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies," that can only happen in the Spring. "The flowers do fade, and wanton fields, To wayward winter reckoning yields," (Sir Walter Raleigh). This states that while the flowers will look and smell beautiful in the Spring and Summer, they will be withered and rotten in the Fall and Winter. In Marlowe's poem, the male cares for his loves physical needs and does not think about her emotional needs, but in Raleigh's poem, the female wonders about their emotional needs. "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" is more of an invitation for the woman to come live with the man, while "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" is like a rejection of that
The two poems have many things that are absent from each other. Raleigh's poem lacks physical attraction to the male from the female, while Marlowe's poem lacks emotional love for the female. Raleigh's poem is more of a reality check for the couple wrote about. "If all the world and love were young..." (Sir Walter Raleigh); that states that the female knows that the male is only attracted to her physical body and not her emotional love. Although these poems have absences of one another, they emphasize the same major points.
Raleigh and Marlowe both emphasize the same statement in their poems. …show more content…
As stated in Marlowe's poem "And I will make the beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies," that can only happen in the Spring. "The flowers do fade, and wanton fields, To wayward winter reckoning yields," (Sir Walter Raleigh). This states that while the flowers will look and smell beautiful in the Spring and Summer, they will be withered and rotten in the Fall and Winter. In Marlowe's poem, the male cares for his loves physical needs and does not think about her emotional needs, but in Raleigh's poem, the female wonders about their emotional needs. "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" is more of an invitation for the woman to come live with the man, while "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" is like a rejection of that