Essay on A Discourse of Remours for the Amorous

Marlowe’s poem speaks of praises and lavish gifts for his love in an attempt to capture her attention and admiration. The narrator speaks of the life they will live together in harmony with nature and with one another. Donne’s poem seems to be a warning to the narrator instead of Raleigh’s poem which is a response to the narrator’s request from a young lady.

A slightly different approach to a proclamation of love is conveyed in the third poem,  by Christopher Marlowe.  He,  despite having the same aim as the poet in the first poem,  seeks a far more realistic approach,  and seems to try to win his loves over by being truthful and presenting her with the truth.  However he does this in such a manner,  that the poem seems to contain a touch of sarcasm in it.

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is one of Christopher Marlowe’s pastoral poem. A pastoral poem deals with the idealistic rather than realistic viewpoint of the life of the country. In the poem, the speaker is trying to convince his love to come and live with him. The setting that gets described here sets the mood of the poem. The sincerity and the eagerness of the speaker can be observed

The second poem is another love poem ‘The Passionate Shepherd To His Love’ by Christopher Marlowe. There are many similarities and differences between the two poems. Both poems are love poems aimed at women, and both are trying to persuade. In ‘To His coy Mistress’ the poem is split into a thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis and is attempting t persuade a woman to give up her virginity. ‘Passionate Shepherd’ is set into a series of four line long stanzas which form an ideal rural world where a man wants his love to live with him.

Throughout the three poems “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love,” “The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd,” and “Raleigh Was Right;” By Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and William Carlos Williams. We can see the themes of nature and love addressed in different ways throughout all three poems. In the first we see nature in a positive, auspicious way, whereas in the subsequent poems we see nature in a negative, gloomy, violent light. The tertiary poem “Raleigh Was Right” agrees with and supports Raleigh's views of nature in a negative light.

Debora B. Schwartz in her article, "Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Comedy" highlights the fact that the major themes which are typically discussed in pastoral poetry include: "love and seduction;… the corruption of the city or court vs. the ‘purity’ of idealized country life…" (par. 2). In the poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," the theme of the "'purity' of idealized country life" is explored when the male persona attempts to use words which conjure up images of an paradise which he and his love interest can escape to sexually gratify each other. The male persona entices his love interest to "come live" with him and be his love (l. 1). He desires that he and his lover's "prove" the various "pleasures" that "woods or steepy mountain yields" (ll. 2, 4). This argument is rebuffed by the female persona in the poem, "The Nymph's Reply to Her Husband," when she states the following: "Time drives the flocks from field to fold, /When rivers rage and rocks grow cold" (ll. 5-6). It should be noted that these lines reflect the following lines of Marlowe's poem: "And we will sit upon the rocks, / seeing the shepherds feed their flocks/ by shallow rivers…" (ll. 5-7). The female persona undermines the shepherd's idealization of the countryside and pastoral life since the passage of time, depicted by the seasons, will change the characteristics of these things described so positively by the male persona in Marlowe's poem.

Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard” uses similar imagery, but their different tones demonstrate the opposing views of how romantic and ironic the two poems are. Both of the poems are expressed through the tone of their speakers expressing their thoughts. In “The Passionate Shepard “the young man is expressing his love to this young lady who he would love to be with. He is very sincere in what he is saying to the woman and is trying his best to swoop her off her feet. In Raleigh’s Nymph the speaker is tone is very contradicting toward what is being said in Marlow’s Passionate Shephard.

While both poems convey an awareness of death approaching, the causes of death are different. Shakespeare’s poem being a lament about unrequited love,

Christopher Marlowe is a very accomplished writer that has been an unquestionable influence on play writing. He wrote poems that are still as popular and relevant today as they were back when Marlowe wrote them (Leech). Marlowe’s writing career was a short-lived on that lasted only six years as a result of his short-lived life because he died at the young age of just twenty-nine (Leech). He writing career might have then cut short but it was a strong and influential one than was full of experiential writing and memorable text (“Christopher Marlowe Biography”). Marlowe was negatively affected by others around him as a result of the desire to be loved and accepted by others around him and it ended in his demise.

Nature has different representations for these three poets; Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", Sir Walter Raleigh "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd", and William Carlos William "Raleigh was Right". The way these men use structure and irony to support the central idea of each of their poems. Their views on nature differ, but is interesting to see three different views during different time periods.

Ralegh conveys this somber realization through his plain style of verse. Though he describes the mistress in detail, she is not the subject of his poem. Ralegh uses Love’s mistress and her destruction as a vehicle to address the destructive nature of Time. He approaches that subject in the plain style, using short, proverbial phrases intended to make the reader aware of time and mutability. The poem contains several lines that are made entirely of one-syllable words, which draw out the time it takes to read the line. Contrast lines 31-32 in “Nature, that washed her hands in milk” with lines 8 and 10 in Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (p. 989). Marlowe describes the land in which he lives, where “Melodious birds sing madrigals,” and beds are made of “a thousand fragrant posies”. Marlowe’s verse sounds quick and light when spoken, simply because he uses fewer words in an eight-syllable line. Ralegh, in contrast, often uses seven or eight words to fill the same eight-syllable line: “Oh, cruel Time! which takes in trust/Our youth, our joys, and all we have…” Line 32 especially requires that the reader take more time to pronounce each syllable, which adds weight to each word.

“The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’sReply” by Sir Walter Raleigh are two of the most well known of pastoral poems and theirresponses. Marlowe’s poem speaks of beautiful things a shepherd will make for his lady love,while Raleigh's response to Marlowe’s is a tongue-in-cheek poem of a woman who rebukes theshepherd’s actions. Of the many responses to Marlowe’s original poem, Raleigh's is the clearwinner. Due to his style, content, and opinion, Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply” is thebest reverberation of Marlowe’s original poem.Raleigh’s stylistic choices for “The Nymph’s Reply” make for a perfect response toMarlowe’s work. Its rhyme scheme and overall structure make Raleigh's reply all the morecutting.

The passionate Shepard is being read as if it’s being spoken by a shepherd who’s talking to the love of his life. Knowing that the speaker in the poem is a shepherd already gives me an imaginary in my head, but it’s enhanced by the visual descriptions given in the poem. Without the use of words, such as “we will all the pleasure prove that valleys, groves, hills and field woods, or steep mountain yield, I wouldn’t have such a clear image about where the shepherd is. The use of language and imagery and knowing who the speaker is does help me to understand the poem better, because now I understand why to show his passion he is offering her posies, a gown of wool, and valleys. Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” was a bit easier to read aloud because the words flowed easier for me. I that’s because it had an easier rhyme scheme than Shakespeare 18th sonnet, which I had to read three times so it didn’t sound as foreign to me. The tone of the poem isn’t forceful, but it’s also not light, there is a fever to the way he is trying to convince the women to become his lover. The things he promises her in the beginning of the poem sound light and sweet, but toward the end the tone becomes more passionate. The tone and rhyme scheme are important to the poem because they help set the mood for the reader and help the reader understand what the poem means or is attempting to say. The

"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 in his lyric 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd' which was an immediate reaction to 'The Passionate shepherd to His Love' by Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe does not put much accentuation much on the character or setting yet more on the claim that the shepherd is endeavoring to make to the young lady. The exceptional topic of this work is of joy and optimistic love (Raleigh 4). Carpe Diem was an acknowledged topic in sonnets of this period, and this portrays as a topic. The speaker asserts his adoration to live with him and advantage from the fulfillments of the day.

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love; by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by: Sir. Walter Raleigh. The purpose of this writing is to compare and contrast the two speakers point of view in the poem. I will also be discussing the four major themes of the: Passionate Shepherd To His Love and The Nymph's reply To The Shepherd, such as nature, love, material world, and time. I will be using evidence and lines from the two pastoral poems to help support my answers.