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
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Approximate Word count = 724
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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