The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

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    The passionate shepherd to his love and the nymph’s reply to the shepherd The passionate of the shepherd is a poem written by christopher martone, that talk about greatness,love and love.The main character of the poem is the shepherd.He think that love will always be there every single day of his life. The nymph's reply to the shepherd is written by sir walter raleigh, the nymph's is the main character, she thinks love will not happen,she think that after a few days,it will be a cold weather…

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    Nymph's Reply

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    The speaker of the “Nymph’s Reply” attitude towards love is that love is only temporary because nothing in the world is everlasting and eventually everything will parish and wither away. In “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love,” a shepherd tells the speaker in “The Nymph’s Reply” that he loves her, and offers her many marvelous offerings, such as “a gown made of the finest wool.” He promises her a fine life. The speaker in “The Nymph’s Reply” rejects the shepherd and believes that his…

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    way English literature was shaped. He did not write in the style typical of the time period, but instead wrote with a more simpler and direct style (“Raleigh”). Through his simpler and more direct style, Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” mocks the skepticism of the age and the realism of a world in which everything must pass on. Sir Walter Raleigh was born into a distinguished Protestant Devonshire family in 1552. Although little is known about his childhood, Raleigh…

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    Passionate Shepherd

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    “Passionate Shepherd to His Love” the narrator's love for a woman he fancies is idealized within it. Its structure of this poem is made as a basis for the both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Bait.” Even though all of the authors are different, they all manage to mirror a similar structure. The organization of the poems are all very similar, all of them have four line stanzas and all three poems have a rhyming scheme of AABB. Also, the original poem and the nymph's reply both use…

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    Marlowe’s poem entitled “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” and Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem entitled “The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd” both pertain to romance, however, they both differ greatly in their viewpoints regarding it. Marlowe portrays an idealized and fantasized viewpoint of romance through the Shepherd in his poem. On the other hand, Raleigh portrays a cynical and realistic viewpoint of romance through the Nymph in his poem. Through the use of the Shepherd and the Nymph, both…

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    true. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” the speaker, an uneducated shepherd, promises his love things that he could never actually give his love. In the…

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    contrast between these two works is "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is an invitation "The Nymph's Rely to the Shepherd" is an answer to the proposal. By their very nature, then, they are both connected and nothing alike. While they both clearly reference some of the same images, both poems have different functions: one poses a question and one answers it. Another point of contrast for these poems is the speaker's tone. One is a young shepherd who wants the woman he loves to marry him and…

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    The Shepherd got Rejected The two poems, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, each share their own insight on their life. The second poem is a depressing reply to the first poem, which tries its hardest to get his lady to come stay with him and love him forever. It shows happiness and joy, while the second one points out why they could never be together forever. The response to the Shepherd uses three main reasons not to move in with him, all the beauty he…

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    of love and how it is affected by the challenges in our relationships. Some of such views are portrayed in the poems; Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare, Funeral Blues, by W.H.Auden, A Valediction: Forbidding Love, by John Donne and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, by Walter Raleigh. In the poem, Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare portrays an idealistic view on the endurance of love and explores what is meant by love. The poet…

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    "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…

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