The Passionate Shepherd Research Paper

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¨The Passionate Shepherd¨ and ¨The Nymph's Reply¨ are two very similar but very different poems. ¨The Passionate Shepherd¨ is a poem to his love the Nymph, Christopher Marlowe is the writer. ¨The Nymph's Reply¨ is a reply to the poem ¨The Passionate Shepherd¨, Sir Walter Raleigh is the writer. In this paper, I will provide examples to compare and contrast to ¨The Passionate Shepherd” and ¨The Nymph's Reply¨. I will do so by using Love, Nature, Time and Material World with textual evidence.
In ¨The Passionate Shepherd¨, and ¨The Nymph's Reply¨ are both very different when it comes Love, Nature, Time and Material World. With Love the Shepherd believes that love can be bought an example from the poem is “Then live with me and be my love” [Line

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