The speakers of the poems, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd use imagery and figurative language showing the materialistic and realistic attitudes towards love and life and that gender-based hopes and expectations have not changed over time. When it comes to love and life we know that men and women have different attitudes. Men are usually idealistic and materialistic while the women are realistic and pragmatic. The Shepherd offers the Nymph many gifts like “A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle” (Passionate Shepherd L.11-12) and more expensive things like “A belt straw and Ivy buds, With Coral clasps and Amber studs”(Passionate Shepherd L.17-18) proving that the Shepherd
