The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

"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…

Marlowe paints a picture of the romantic dream of love. The scene is pastoral and idyllic, of the simple shepherd surrounded by his sheep in a beautiful rural paradise. The weather is usually perfect, but when it is…

Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd” decides to reject this idea. Throughout the poem the nymph explains why she cannot be the shepherds love ultimately rejecting…

nature in his poem and referring back to statements made in previous poems. For example in stanza one, line four "What can the small violets tell us that grow on furry stems in the long grass among lance-shaped leaves?" (Raleigh was right, 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,…

Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Night” and “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” by Shakespeare, “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe. These writers confront the idea of “carpe diem” by not entertaining the thought of what tomorrow may bring. For example, in “To His Coy Mistress”, Marvell is saying if there were enough time on earth, he and his mistress would do all…

in an almost quixotic version of love, in which love is unaffected by time or distance and persists even after death. I have chosen to explore different idealistic and realistic views on the endurance 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…

perceive the world according to their own beliefs, identities and even fears. In other terms, the perception of nature can influence and be influenced by individuality. The poems “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe, and “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold exemplify the…

recognized for many things in his lifetime. Raleigh was born in 1552 in Hayes Barton, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied at Oriel College in Oxford from 1572-1574. Raleigh later served in the army in Ireland becoming one of the Queen Elizabeth’s favorites. He was given land from the Queen and became captain of her guard. Walter Raleigh wrote in reply to others. His poem The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd was in reply to Christopher Marlowe’s poem The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. His response…

personal tradition when selling his sheeps, and romance when he leaves Fatima, all of which help Santiago overcome fear and achieve his Personal Legend, reinforcing Coelho’s message that one’s Personal Legend is the most important journey that an individual can experience. For many, capitalistic greed can consume one’s life,…

Santiago, demonstrates his fears as obstacles that divert himself from attaining his Personal Legend, and therefore he must overcome them. Throughout the book, Santiago displays common fears which hinder him from the tasks he has yet to accomplish. One of these fears is Santiago’s immense terror of failure. During his travels with the Alchemist, Santiago yearns to turn himself into the wind; however, he hesitates in even trying to do so, saying “‘But I have…