...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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...use personas, which may or may not be themselves. The main persona in Christopher Marlowe’s poem, “The Passionate 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...
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...Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh, is 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...
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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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...Thesis “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “Let’s Stay Together” both use romanticisms, creative diction, and a steady rhythm to persuade a woman, but the beautiful words of the author’s song makes the song more romantic. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” emphasizes in promising things that could not buy the love. The speaker is using persuasive exaggerated words that makes the poem incredible. For example, Marlow’s poem states that “And I will make thee beds of roses with a thousand fragrant posies” (Marlow 724). “a thousand fragrant poises” is something impossible to complete. Where will he find “a thousand fragrancies”? How does a bed can smell like “a thousand fragrant poises”? The poem is saying unrealistic promises (Marlow...
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...poem comparison essay The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a love poem that contains six quatrains of rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter.In this poem, the shepherd persona speaks to his beloved, evoking “all the pleasures” of a peaceful springtime nature. He promises her the delights of nature and his courtly attention. The first quatrain is the invitation to “Come live with me and be my love.” Next, the speaker describes the pleasant natural setting in which he plans that they will live. Their life will be one of leisure; they will “sit upon the rocks,” watch the shepherds, and listen to the birds. Subsequently In the poem 'A Woman to her lover' by Christina Walsh portrays about a woman whom only wants true and sincere love instead of a controlled, worshiped and a physical love. In verse 1, she says to her lover that she does not want to be controlled and wants to live her own life; Christina Walsh speaks directly to the listeners and asks whether he has come to bend her to his wills. During the Elizabethan era, women were usually expected to be a very supportive mom and a good wife. However, she is saying that she would like to take control of their relationship and would never be his 'bond slave.' Verse 1 has long vowels have rhythms which portrays a very monotonous feeling towards the reader. The key ideas in the poem 'A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is the "passionate" appeal of a young shepherd to his beloved lady love "to come and live with him." It...
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...March 2014 The Optimistic Shepherd and the Realistic Nymph Carpe Diem has this beautiful and romantic connotation that no optimist can help but become giddy at the thought of the endless possibilities. These words to a realist however would cause a rolling of the eyes and the thought, “it must nice” going through their mind. So, which is right, to live the fantasy of only thinking about this moment or to take off the veil over your eyes and to take on life head on? In his poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Christopher Marlowe writes about a young shepherd in love. Marlowe main focus is on the argument that the shepherd is trying to make to his love, pleading with her to come live with him and enjoy the pleasures of the life. In his poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Sir Walter Raleigh uses the young girl as the speaker responding to the shepherd in direct response to Marlowe’s poem. The young girl thinks realistically and points out the flaws in the perfect life the young shepherd has proposed to her. The shepherd seems to be very much of an optimist, whereas the young girl is a realist. Looking closely on both poems you can see the first one presents dreams, hopes, material goods, and objects while the other poem presents reality. The arrangement of these two poems is the same where both have six stanzas containing four lines each. In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" the young shepherd largely uses nature to appeal to his love. He tells her they will sit...
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...Norton and the Field Guide (pt2). • MLA format for quotes and paraphrases, using parenthetical citations. • Correct grammar, style (see concision exercise) proofreading, editing, clarity, syntax, use of 3rd person only. • Completion this assignment and adherence to guidelines. Note: Some important information regarding writing about poetry and MLA documentation is available in the Field Guide for this week. Provide your answers in the boxes after each question. When finished, save and submit this into the dropbox, folder titled: Poetry Analysis Questions. Title of Poem: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Poet: Christopher Marlowe 1. What is the poem about? Describe the action of the poem. |The poem was about a man who was a shepherd and was looking for love. The man/shepherd based the poem about his love and how he | |would treat and act towards his love. The action of the poem is more on the sensitive, heartwarming...
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...Human Experience: Love Team B: ENG/125 Aspect of Human Experience: Love Introduction The human experience chosen by this team is the experience of love. There are many forms of love and many different ways literary authors bring readers to experience love through their works of art. To demonstrate this experience of love throughout the different types of literary forms, the team chose to compare Chekhov’s Misery, Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Langston’s Salvation, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Through this comparison, the team will demonstrate how authors bring readers to understand and experience love through their use of literary devices and style of writing. Misery Chekhov’s use of literary devices Anton Chekhov’s short story, Misery, had literary devices to show the love Iona, the protagonist, had for his deceased son. Chekhov displays imagery of the unconditional love a parent has for their children. Throughout the story, Iona was searching for someone he can confide to about his loss. Iona, a sledge-driver in Russia, encountered five people during his route but was unsuccessful in venting his sorrows. He loved his son so much he was willing to talk to strangers about it. Foreshadowing was a device used in Misery as well. The story began and ended with Iona and his mare. In the beginning of the story, Iona and his mare sat in the snow while waiting for customers. Iona searched for strangers to talk to but in the end, it was his mare he confided...
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...A flock of sheep wanders as the all-seeing shepherd meanders nearby. He watches them closely as they consume their daily vittles provided by nature, making sure not even one sheep goes astray, or that any predator comes to disrupt the supposed bliss. The shepherd's love for his flock is that of presumed perfection. He maintains the assumption that as long as he guards the flock and provides ample grazing land, the flock will provide him with copious amounts of wool: that their relationship will be all right. Unfortunately, this simply may not be true; his flock can produce the wool or it may suffer from an unexpected disease or any other ailment and their presumed relationship will fail. As Christopher Marlowe so elegantly presented in “The...
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...Passionate About Love Haley Curtiss Historical Background Edmund Spencer was an English poet. Edmund's parents took what may have been the most important step in advancing their Edmund’s fortunes by enrolling him in the Merchant Taylors' school in London, where he became also an advanced student ahead of his class. He was best known for a lot of his famous poems known as “The Faerie Queene” and “Sonnet 1”. He was born in London in 1552. In the mid-year of 1569, Edmund left school and matriculated as a sitar at Pembroke Hall that’s now called Pembroke College. Although he had to work for his meals and accommodation, and may often have been ill during his studies, this appears to have been an important and productive time for the young poet. The most important influence on Edmund during this period, though, was undoubtedly his intimate friendship with Gabriel Harvey, himself admitted as a Fellow of Pembroke Hall in 1570. While Edmund’s relationship with Harvey was later mocked by fellow students in a play titled Pedantries. After getting his Bachelor Degree in 1573 and Masters in 1576, Edmund left Pembroke College for Kent College, where he acted as secretary for John Young, recently created Bishop of Rochester. It was there that the poet probably composed The Shepherds Calendar, which was printed in 1579. Spenser's masterpiece is an extensive poem The Faerie Queen The first three books of The Faerie Queen were published in 1590, and a second set of three books were...
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...Week 5 Questions 1. What are the main characteristics of Matthew and Mark? Use the material from the video lecture and your own insights from reading these Gospels. Mathew and Mark complement each other by being complete opposites. The Gospel of Matthew is the first of the 4. He left his position as a tax collected for the government to follow the Messiah. Matthew provides us with a historic record from Jesus’s birth in Bethlehem to his development along with fulfillment of his ministry by a very systematic approach. His book emphasizes Jesus teachings but also what he did. Also, Matthew utilized number sets of 3, specifically profound of the numbers 3, 5, 7. Mark on the other hand couldn’t be more opposite. His Gospel moves quickly from miracles to conflict. Marks approach tended to be more sporadic and less attuned to lists or an organization structure. Although, his Gospel is filled with action. His style was worded perfectly in our video lecture, “as being a man of breathless excitement.” Mark primarily affirms the identity as Jesus as the Son of God, dramatically interplaying miracles and conflict showing Jesus true unmistakable power and greatness. The beauty in these to Gospels is that they leave nothing out and represent the king of Kings as it should be. By being complete opposites their complement rests on being everything the other is not. Thus Mathew’s strengths plays into the Mark’s weaknesses’ and vice versa. Although the combination sets...
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...came from the pagan sacrifices. The only protection came from God. * The Coming of Beowulf In the land of the Geats, ruled by Higlac, Beowulf was the greatest and strongest of all the men. He decided to go to see Hrothgar, because he has heard of the horrors Grendel brought. The Geats egged on his adventure, so Beowulf took a crew of the mightiest men he could find and set forth on his journey. They arrived at the Danish shore and were questioned by the guard, who thought they might be raiders or pirates. Beowulf explained they were Geats; his father was Edgetho, a famous soldier and explained why they were there. The guard lets them pass. They enter Herot and are called to see the King. Beowulf is greeted by Hrothgar and explains why he is there. He says he will fight and kill Grendel without fear, and if he looses to mail his armor back to Higlac and return his inheritance. Hrothgar accepts his idea. * The Battle with Grendel Grendel comes to Herot with a thirst to kill. He kills one Geat, but sees Beowulf who becomes terrified and wants to run away. He remembers his promise and attacks Grendel until he ripped Grendel’s arm off. Grendel goes back to his layer and dies. Beowulf is victorious and...
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...raphael Born 1483, Urbino, Italy Died April 6, 1520 Known for Painting Architecture Notable work The School of Athens 1509–1511 The four Raphael Rooms (was the largest work of his career) 15081524 william shakespeare Born Around April 23, 1564, StratforduponAvon, United Kingdom Died April 23, 1616 Known for Playwrighting Poet Notable work Two Gentlemen of Verona 159495 Romeo and Juliet 159495 niccolo machiavelli Born May 3, 1469 F lorence, Italy Died June 21, 1527 Known for Historian Politician Philosopher Writer and more... Notable work Discorsi Sopra La Prima Deca Di Tito Livio 1531 The Mandrake 1528 Il Principe 1532 francis bacon Born January 22, 1561, Strand, London, United Kingdom Died April 9, 1626 Known for Philosopher Scientist Essayist and author Jurist and more... Notable work The Great Instauration History of Life and Death Novum Organum The New Atlantis nicolaus copernicus Born February 19, 1473, T oruń, Poland Died May 24, 1543 Known for Heliocentrism Copernicus' Law economist scholar Notable work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ...
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