...The two poems, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Respond to the Shepherd are two poems that have to do with love, nature, time, and materialistic items, but they each have different views of the topic. The poem the Shepherd has a keen view of love that lasts forever, “The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing, For thy delight each May morning” (v. 21-22). The shepherd believes that love is forever like the nature and the seasons. The shepherd also has a materialistic view on love, “A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold” (v.13-16). Materials are used as tokens of love in the shepherd’s eyes. The shepherd wants to live in the moment and not think about the future when it comes to love and the way he feels, “For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love” (v.22-24), this also shows that...
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...Shepherd to His Love” makes promises to the intended audience to stay by his side. In contrast, the main persona in Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” appears to respond to that of Marlowe’s poem in a negative tone. Because of the nature of both poems, Marlowe’s poem has a masculine voice, whereas Raleigh’s poem has a feminine voice. The history of the poem and the way it was written can help decipher whether if the poem was a masculine tone or a feminine tone, or even the each way gender reacts to the idea of courting presently in comparison to how the poets interpreted courting. Both poems were published during the late 17th century and the early 18th century. A critical essay written by Sheri E. Metzger states that “the great Elizabethan lyric sequences typically begin by identifying the poet's mistress as the primary lyric audience” and this quote shows that during the Elizabethan time period many of the lyrics of poems written would refer their mistresses as the audience. Poems were a very popular way of courting members of the opposite sex. Both poems were a way for the poet to show their emotions to their lovers. Marlowe attempted to do this by expressing the many things he had to offer to his love in order for her to come by his side. They were not just things that an ordinary person would be able to offer, but it was something far beyond normal. Another reason that a poet would have for writing a poem would be to compete amongst his fellow poets...
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...Pursuit of Love “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a pastoral poem that is simple yet idealized. This poem was written by Christopher Marlowe who was an English dramatist. Marlowe is considered to be the father of English tragedy. Christopher Marlowe was the eldest son of a shoemaker and was born on February 6, 1564. Through the entire poem the speaker, who is a shepherd, wants a woman character to come live with him. The speaker goes on to ask her to sit on rocks, and spend time with him. The speaker will make his love gifts and do anything to please her if she will just come live with him. The speaker, form, use of poetic elements, and theme of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” will be the main discussion in this analysis. Marlow writes this poem in first person. The speaker, which is the shepherd of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” conducts his poem in a very dreamlike way. The shepherd opens with the invitation: "Come live with me, and be my love." He is not asking her to marry him but only to live with him. The offer is simply put and the speaker suggests that the woman should just as easily agree. The shepherd obviously only wants her for a period of time. Knowing this, it may make the woman question whether or not she should get involved with this man. The speaker lives in an ideal society where everything is perfect. The shepherd does not really have a care in the world because he lives in his world of simplicity, beauty, and love. Everything...
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...a comeback poem to Christopher Marlowe’s poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”. Both of these poems use imagery and symbolism to describe love. The formation and construction of these poems are consistent and related. The poems also create rhythms that allow the text to flow and come together. Raleigh main focus in his poem describes conflict and rejection of being in love. A nymph is goddesses in ancient mythology represented as maidens living the mountains, forests, meadow, and waters. Raleigh uses the word "nymph" instead of "girl" in the title so the reader can identify that the speaker is a girl. The stanzas in each poem often reflect one another and Raleigh’s poem answers the request to the shepherd. Marlowe begins with the proposal for the maiden to "Come live with me and bee my Love" (1). This statement made by the shepherd is asking for her to be with him. His request is simple and truthful, with "all (her) pleasures prove" (2) if only she will live with him and be his love. He wanted to give her eternal love through his materialistic world, but this perception of love represents the idea that love can be bought at a price. Raleigh’s reply to the shepherd proves that love is not what it seems to be. He states in the first stanza “If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherds tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love.” (1-4). Raleigh uses perfect rhythm and half –rhythm in this stanza. The...
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...Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love Composition III/Literature Christopher Marlowe was an English poet of the Elizabethan era, late 1500 to early 1600. He obtained his education from University of Cambridge, The Kings School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi. In 1589 while attending Cambridge University at its Corpus Christi College he wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. It first appeared in print in poetry collections published in 1599 and1600. Marlowe’s theme of “The Passionate Shepherd” is the rapture of springtime love in a simple setting. Pastoral poems generally center on the love of a shepherd for a maiden, on the death of a friend, or on the quiet simplicity of rural life. The writer of a pastoral poem may be an educated city dweller, like Marlowe, who extolls the virtues of a shepherd girl or longs for the peace and quiet of country life. Through the descriptions in his poem he is not just conveying to his love, but also extolling the readers to “seize the day”, urging one to enjoy the moment without worrying about the future. The poem’s speaker is of a young man who is a shepherd who asks the young lady to “live with me and be my love,” (Marlowe, 1600, p. 749), noting that they will enjoy all the pleasures and beauty that nature has to offer. The description of “shallow rivers to whose falls, Melodious birds sing madrigals”, (Marlowe, 1600, p. 749), gives the vison of a river flowing with birds flying...
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...Comparison/Contrast Of Passionate Shepherd And Nymph’s Reply Both of the poems have some similarities in the way of writing and layout of the poem. They both talk about the same topic. They both share their opinion of living how good the nature is, the setting. They also got differences because one of the poems don’t agree with one of the authors said. Sir Walter Raleigh don’t think that the shepherd is saying the truth because Raleigh thinks that the place will fade, it will rot that the climate will change and it won’t be the same. The Shepherd see the place lasting forever, the Nature will be normal and never change. The Nymph thinks it won’t he thinks it wont last time will be bad he doesn’t like the idea, he does not agree with the...
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...children. On March 11, 1945 Japanese patrol attacked her husband and her son Ruben in Alitagtag, Batangas. Though Celedonio died, Ruben was able to survive but he had a trauma. This left Angela a widow with 3 children to take care of. It also forced her to leave writing and change her means of living from a writer to abaca business. Angela died in 1995. Angela’s poems are the only pre-war anthology of in English by a Filipino woman. One of her works is the English-Italian sonnet “To the Man I Married”. A sonnet is a poem written in 14 lines that has 10 syllables each line and a very specific rhyme scheme. The sonnet “to the Man I Married” is a metaphorical way of Angela in showing how much she loves and needs her husband. This is everything that she felt for her husband even after his death. I. “You are my earth and all that earth implies: The gravity that ballasts me in space, The air I breathe, the land that stills my cries For food and shelter against devouring days. You are the earth whose orbit marks my way And sets my north and south, my east and west, Your are the final, elemental clay The driven heart must turn to for its rest.” In these lines, Angela considered her husband her earth. The earth that provides her with everything that she needs in her life. He is her earth where her food is grown. Her husband is her shelter. He is the “air” that she breathes, the one that keeps her alive. He is the one that gives her directions through the...
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...Worldview Essay In the very beginning we are told in Genesis 1:27 “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”(NIV) and again in Genesis 5:1 “…when God created man, he made them in the likeliness of God.” (NIV) He may not have made us to be exactly like him but to have the characteristics of God. Townes makes a statement that “God created the first man in His image, therefore all people are accountable to their Creator.”(2007)With the image of God in mind we received the ability to love, have compassion, be faithful, have integrity, be trustworthy, and obtain wisdom. These tools or characteristics are needed to fulfill our lives in all areas. In the field of psychology it is important to have and understand these qualities or characteristics. Someone who holds a title in the Psychology field has the responsibility of another person’s wellbeing. Psychology is an enlightening and life changing career field which provides numerous chances to not only live a professional life that will be pleasing to God, but it is a field that can show God’s persistent love. A Psychologist is a trained professional who has taken on the task of helping others learn Introduction From the very beginning, God created us in His image (Genesis 1: 26-28). With God being love, this explains the reason behind our very essence being love as well (1 John 4: 8). As an encouraging and life-changing career field, psychology has given rise...
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...LIFE FULL OF LOVE Love is one of the most wonderful feelings that a person can ever experience. Love knows no boundaries and discriminations. This world is a beautiful creation of the almighty and with love we can fill the best of the colours making it more vibrant and lively. Love is all around us. All it takes is the right perception. As soon as a young baby is born, he is endowed with parental love. Parents struggle day and night to bring him up and provide him the best this world can offer. They perspire in the day and then awake at night looking after their cherub. When the baby grows a little younger, he gets the love of his peers. With his growing age the circle of love also widens. Friends are the important milestones in one's life. And we all love our true friends who stood by us in thick and thin of life. Then, come the most crucial phase of life. The search for the life partner begins. True love is experienced and defined at this stage of life only. It is the basic human instinct to reproduce and continue the chain of life. To do so, all of us search for the most compatible person. With whom we want to share all the rights and wrongs of life. Love paves the way for the future life and generations. A new cycle begins at this stage of life. But this is the usual course of love and not necessarily the compulsory one. Love is beyond any restrictions and rules. To love someone is like to be the best person of his life. Love has the extreme powers and can make anything...
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...Stand In Awe Of You Lyrics You are beautiful beyond description Too marvelous for words Too wonderful of comprehension Like nothing ever seen or heard Who can grasp you infinite wisdom Who can fathom the depth of your love You are beautiful beyond description Majesty enthroned above And I stand, I stand in awe of you I stand, I stand in awe of you Holy God to whom all praise is due I stand in awe of you For The Lord Is Good Lyrics Enter His gates with thanksgiving Come into His courts with praise Enter His presence rejoicing Singing great and mighty is His name Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet Praise Him with the timbrel and harp Let every creature in Heaven and earth Lift a sound of praise, sing with all their heart For the Lord is good (For the Lord is good) For the Lord is good (For the Lord is good) For the Lord is good And His mercy endures forever For the Lord is good (For the Lord is good) For the Lord is good (For the Lord is good) For the Lord is good And His mercy endures forever For the Lord is good And His mercy endures forever Jesus the Son is exalted, Maker of everything Come now and bow down before Him Lift your voice to sing For the Lord is good And His mercy endures forever Ron Kenoly - Ancient of Days Lyrics Blessing and honor, glory and power Be unto the ancient of days From every nation, all of creation Bow before the ancient of days Every tongue in heaven and...
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...Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Tenetta Griffin English 225 Melissa Rigney January 14, 2014 Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Jim Carrey is a talented comedian and I have enjoyed every film that I’ve seen him in. I selected Bruce Almighty for an in-depth film analysis because of how the talented actors helped put a unique spin on the whole god/human relationship for the modern day moviegoer. This movie is not designed to be an in-depth expose on the god/human relationship but a platform to gently remind the audience the of how important our decisions affect where we are in life and gives us a moment to pause and think about what kind of future do we really desire. In my opinion, the film Bruce Almighty utilizes Jim Carrey's comedic talents to address the heavy topic of the god/human relationship and the moral issue that the director wants the share with the audience is that our free will should be exercised a modicum of human integrity to effectively resolve our own personal issues/dilemmas. My first step in analyzing Bruce Almighty involves taking a closer look at plot development and how this movie took the universal truth concerning how mankind in general tends to get frustrated with God when things just don’t go their way while taking it down a unconventional comedic path to help lighten up the seriousness of the topic. The director of Bruce Almighty’s tells the story from a mixed point of view which means we sometimes learn what is going on at the same...
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...we see and experience each and every day in our environs to prevail (Braine 1-10). They fail to fathom the reason why the capable God would by genuine reasons agree to the notion that the power of choice should be bestowed in humans. They claim that if God is really a loving God he ought to allow his creations to decide if he really hopes to see a world where utmost love can subsists at all and they think man may misuse the ability bestowed in him to select acts in a very fierce way that does not concur with the morality principles. The byproduct of a universe where the power to inculcate love in our humanly actions is an option is the widespread ethical evil that is witnessed. Evils of various kinds exit in the world. Most of these evils are referred to as natural evil. Innocent souls die day by day because of natural calamities and tragedies. The effects of maladies, epidemics and pandemics can also not be overlooked. These widespread of natural evil seemingly has no bearing to the actions of the human beings and the types of resolutions that they make in their life time. How then can all these evils that happen be accounted for? Why would God allow such misfortunes to befall His innocent and blameless creation on earth? These burning questions that touch on the supernatural beings require careful meditation and arguments to enable us understand really the existence of God and the occurrence of the evils that have filled the globe. This paper will take a stand as to whether...
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...Islam makes it clear that all human acts are acts of worship if they are done for God alone and in accordance to His Divine Law (www.Islamicinformation.net). As such, worship in Islam is not limited to religious rituals. The teachings of Islam act as a mercy and a healing for the human soul, and such qualities as humility, sincerity, patience and charity are strongly encouraged. However, human beings have also been created weak and regularly fall into sin. This is the nature of the human being as created by God in His Wisdom, and it is not inherently "corrupt" or in need of having repairs. (www.Islamicinformation.net). The Question of Meaning/Purpose: Islam condemns pride and self-righteousness, since Almighty God is the only judge of human righteousness. The Islamic view of the nature of man is also realistic and well-balanced. Human beings are not believed to be inherently sinful, but are seen as equally capable of both good and evil. Islam also teaches that faith and action go hand-in-hand. God has given people free-will, and the measure of one's faith is one's deeds and actions. This is because the avenue of repentance is always open to all human beings, and Almighty God loves the repentant sinner more than one who does not sin at all. The true balance of an Islamic life is established by having a healthy fear of God as well as a sincere belief and hope in His infinite Mercy. A life without fear of God leads to sin and disobedience, while believing that we have sinned so...
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...when modernization and post-modernism has eaten deep into the integrity of salvation, this new move of God bore the features of an uncommon encounter between God and man, in a manner that could only befit the perfect repeat of bible. At the time of His sending, The Lord God Almighty commissioned HIS Servant with a relentless firebrand gospel that essentially began to call the entire human race into repentance, and holy living in Christ Jesus. It is this manner of tight INSTRUCTION from God that caused The Man of God the Prophet to hit the trail and surprise the spiritual landscape like a storm. And because he came preaching repentance and renouncing sin and the present-day apostasy, the Man of God’s ministry translated into the direct message of preparing the way for the coming of the Messiah. This ceaseless mission to rebuke sexual sin, lies, immorality, false prophets, false apostles, false teachers, and the love of money above Christ, did not come out of one single visitation, but as a result of numerous relentless visitations of God Himself, in which He spoke directly to His Servant through non-stop dreams, visions, and also directly by His Fearsome Voice. In one such visitation at His calling, the Lord God took His Servant into His Throneroom and presented unto Him the Ark of the New Covenant...
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...In the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful Service to Humanity – a Perquisite for Being the “Best People” To start the presentation, I will take you back in time in to a battlefield. Battle of Yarmook was being fought. Three sahaba Akrama bin abu Jahal, Sohail bin umro, Haris bin Hasham were seriously injured and as a result extremely thirsty and looking for few drops of water. One sahabi was looking for a relative and came across Akrama bin Abu Jahal. As he was about to give water to Akrama, thirsty cries of Sohail bin umro could be heard and Akrama refused to drink and wanted the water to be given to Sohail. This sahabi took the water to Sohail only to hear the cries of Haris bin Hasham. Sohail refused to take a drink and wanted the water to be given to Haris bin Hashim. By the time water could be taken to ...
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