The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

Adair English 201 8 March 2018 When there is love anything is possible, not! The poem “The Passionate Shepherd to his love” is a pastoral and romantic poem by Christopher Marlowe that has a focus on the Shepherd’s love. The speaker of the poem is the Shepherd. The poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Marlowe’s poem. A Nymph is the speaker of the poem. Raleigh’s poem is a direct mockery of Marlowe’s poem and all the claims and promises he makes in it. The two poems have a focus on the themes of nature, time, love, and life. Raleigh’s poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” contradicts and/or challenges Marlowe’s view on each of the themes. In the poem “The Passionate Shepherd to his love,” it starts off with the line “Come live with me and be my love” (1). The Shepherd starting the poem off this way sets the tone for what he wants which is a lover. In the line, he doesn’t propose marriage, which means he likely doesn’t want the commitment. Since he doesn’t ask for marriage or a relationship it can be assumed he wants physical pleasure. The next line of the poem he explores the idea of experimenting with all the pleasures that he and his love could experience. In Raleigh’s poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” the Nymph starts the first stanza off…

Williams) refers to nature agreeing with Raleigh 's poem "The Nymph 's Reply to the Shepherd" about nature not always being an answer. Marlowe includes alliterations, and rhyme schemes as a part of his structure that help develop a central idea in his poem, although rather than using alliteration Williams will repeat words such as country, and long ago. Williams does not include alliteration in his poem because he believes that love is so similar to nature in a sense that if nature dies, so…

Comparison Between The Three Poems In the poems “The Passionate Shepherd” by Christopher Marlowe, “The Nymph 's reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, and “Raleigh Was Right” by William Carlos Williams, all share a central idea in unit one. They all view nature, either bad or good. The Shepherd and the Nymph both share images that tend to have the same thinking. In all the three poems, the authors depict how society views nature. Nature on the other hand, people view as beautiful, and…

incredibly critical and the importance of it is showed in Shakespeare 's sonnet 1 and Sir Walter Raleigh 's "The nymph 's reply to the shepherd." Even though we all choose how to utilize our time, in Shakespeare 's sonnet 1 the speaker urges the young man to beget children as a demonstration of insubordination against time. He contends that the young man might now be beautiful however over time his excellence will blur. As per the sonnet 's speaker, reproducing guarantees that our names…

Throughout the years Greek Mythology has influenced art and literature. It was created to teach people using stories about their gods. For example, the myth of the Sirens from The Odyssey teaches us to use logic to resist temptation and move forward with our lives. Ulysses, Latin for Odysseus, and his men are sailing back to their home Ithaca, when the stumble upon Sirens. They must stay strong and resist temptation so they can continue their journey. In the painting, Ulysses and The Sirens,…

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…

B. In “ The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh the nymph is being Characterized as to being realistic and not caring for what the the shepherd can give her. C. Sir Walter Raleigh uses imagery and symbolism to develop the idea of the nymph’s Unsympathetic views on love towards the shepherd. II. Body Paragraph 1 A.In the poem “ The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd” Walter Raleigh uses imagery to show how the nymph feels towards the shepherd. 1.The Nymph…

¨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…

In the poems, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the man, also referred to as the shepherd, and the woman, referred to as the nymph, have completely different views of love. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the Shepherd presents a view of love that is held together by normal human desires for material items such as beauty, music, fine clothes, dancing, and other nice things such as roses. The Shepherd believes that the key to attracting the…

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Ralegh express ideas on love and time. However, Sir Walter Ralegh approaches the concept more realistically by using the nymph’s outlook on these topics, while Marlowe describes them in a more a dream like state through the shepherd’s view. Through the carpe diem theme, Marlowe conveys the shepherd’s views of love and time, whereas Ralegh more practical and naturally articulates the…