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    "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a kind of peaceful sonnet made by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. This sonnet involves shepherds and nation life. This sonnet was composed in a shepherd's field or settings. The data given is about the speaker who is a shepherd and thinks hopefully and impractically. Before Christopher Marlowe could print his work he had begun accepting different reactions about and towards his work., One such reaction was composed by Sir Walter Raleigh

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    Seducing Shepherd “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” poem is a poem that portrays the basic romanticism of the country living which describes the nature of the environments and is very sentimental. Christopher Marlowe’s poem is showing the best fantasy of ordinary romance that would be much better felt in the countryside other than the urban side of the country. Nature is of the essence. “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” poem, on the other hand, is based on how he perceives “The Passionate Shepherd

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    countryside. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” demonstrates that “Renaissance poetry is interested not in representational accuracy but in the magical power of exquisite workmanship to draw its readers into fabricated worlds” (Greenblatt 371). Marlowe’s poem clearly shows that poems are meant to convey a message behind them and not to be taken in a literal sense, but through the structure and complex literary devices he uses, his readers are introduced to a new world set

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    “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”. There are differences and similarities in love, nature, time, and the material world between to the two poems. In the poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, love is a big part of the poem. The author talks about love being able to be bought, “And I will make thee beds roses,”. The author expresses love through materialism, “A gown made of the finest wool,”. The poem “The Nymph’s Reply to The Shepherd”, love is not

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    existence would be dull and wearisome. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe is a pastoral poem published in 1599 where a man attempts to find companionship because he is lonely. Marlowe creates a majestic rural world encompassed by natural beauty in which the Shepherd attempts to court a presumably young woman. The Nymph 's reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh was written in response to The Passionate Shepherd to His Love in 1600, one year after its publication. This

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    In the poems, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, a shepherd is asking a lady to come with him. He promises her gifts that can usually be found in nature but show real value to the shepherd. In the “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh and “Raleigh was right” by William Carlos Williams, they both talk about how nature or the countryside isn’t as great as people thing and it is as hard living there as it is everywhere else. All of the poets use the setting

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    The Sexist Shepard to His Lust: Sexism in Marlowe’s Poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Pastoral literature has been known to idolize the life of shepherds; the grazing sheep, the scenic nature, and the time for leisure have been idolized by poets for ages. Christopher Marlowe takes the genre of pastoral poetry and uses it to create a poem meant to romance his love. However, isn’t of a romance poem it reads as a rather sexist piece, not in the case of sheer misogyny, but in the sense that

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    I’m going to be concentrating on the two poems The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd differences and similarities on a few things: Love, Nature, Time, and the Material World. What I've seen is that the two poems are complete polar opposites and offset each other. The Shepherd is a perfect dream where nothing ends or love dies. The Nymph is striking back at him with reality and with doubt about what the Shepherd is telling her. My first comparison is between the

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    “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh are two of numerous, prominent poems in the late sixteenth century. Both were written between 1590 and 1600, however, the exact years for each are somewhat ambiguous. Raleigh’s “The Passionate Shepherd . . . ” is classified as a pastoral poem due to its depiction of a natural setting and is also considered to be perhaps the most famous of all English pastoral works. Likewise

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    “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh There are many poems that are considered to be companion poems. Companion poems are two separate poems that are similar. Usually they are about the same experience or experiences, and are also usually written in the same form. Two of the most famous companion poems are “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by

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