The Shepard and the Nymphs reply
Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" introduces a shepherd's unyielding desire for a beautiful woman and his determination to capture her love. This man seems to offer the woman "all the pleasures prove"(2) of nature ranging from the "steepy mountains"(4) to "fragrant posies,"(10) in exchange for her love. The man goes on with his thick and endless wonders of love and life with this woman, and she simply comes back with a harsh yet practical response contradicting all he has dreamt for his nymph. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd", written by Walter Ralegh, is a poem that denies of a blossoming nature by describing the undeniable death of its beauty and worth. While the shepherd is boasting about the wonderful things he will shower his nymph with, she resists and esserts that love, as well as nature will soon die. In time all "do fade"(9). The shepherd makes an endearment to give all the beauty of nature for her to be his love. He seems to have a great imagination with the beauty of nature and does not think that anything will affec
thoughts. She response with a pessimistic view of nature "the rocks grow cold"(6), how soon the "rivers rage"(6) and how "dumb" the birds really are. He goes on with "a thousand fragrant posies"(10) and her "delight each May morning"(22) but she still crushes his thoughts with "flowers do fade"(9), "Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten"(15) and "fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall". The nymph is very insensible to his picture of a life of idyllic beauty and his impracticalities. The shepherd goes on about the pleasures and never seems to mention any strong feelings of his love for her. He never talks to her with a sweet tounge of how she will be treated with his emotions and love. The nymph shows another side of her that denies his love because she does not want to love the gifts that he gives but the The shepherd has a great desire for the Nymph's love and to offer her gifts, but she seems to resist him and inquires that love, like his gifts will soon die. We don't know why exactly the nymph response to the shepherd with defense and denial of the pleas
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Approximate Word count = 724
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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