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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" was written as a satiric reply to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." This means that the two poems are by two...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
In the first stanza, the shepherd asks his beloved to come and live with him. If she does, he promises to make living with him worthwhile. He tells her that they will sit on rocks to watch...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
According to the shepherd, if his love agrees, they will enjoy all the pleasures of nature, including valleys, woods, hills, fields, and mountains. While they are enjoying nature, they will sit on...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is full of figurative language, especially the metaphor. In contrast to a simile, which uses "like" or "as" to compare two different...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The entire poem is hyperbolic. It is an exaggerated description of a place that is probably too good to be true. So, in that general respect, every stanza offers promises that would be difficult...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The shepherd gives/promises to give his beloved a painted picture of the utopian world they would share together, "pleasures" that appear to have a sexual nature, many beds of roses, dresses,...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Specifically, this poem is considered a pastoral poem because of its idyllic setting. However, since that isn't one of your options, your better choice here is lyric. The second link I am...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
It appears that you are referring to the nymph's reply to the amorous shepherd in Sir Walter Raleigh's The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd. Sir Walter Raleigh's poem answers Christopher Marlowe's The...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
One modern song that has the carpe diem theme characteristic of Marlowe's ''The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young." Joel's song possesses an urgency and...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe wrote this poem in the pastoral style, where the speaker promises the object of his affections an idyllic life if she chooses to become his love. The speaker paints a highly...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
In the simplest of terms, the speaker in Marlowe's poem is a shepherd who is love with another person. From the title, it becomes clear that the subject of the pastoral poem is an unnamed shepherd...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The most obvious point of both comparison and contrast between these two works is that Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is an invitation while Sir Walter Raleigh's "The...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The shepherd narrator in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is making a simple request of the woman he loves: please come and live with me forever. To make this case, the...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
One of the clear themes that can be identified that link these two poems is the way that both of them are examples of "carpe diem" poems, or poems that focus on the imperative of seizing the day...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
I'm afraid who makes the "best" or better case between "Shepherd" and "Nymph" is mostly a matter of opinion, and one's opinion is mostly dependent on the attitude one brings to the question....
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
In the poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", the speaker is inviting his love to come live with him and to be his love. The stanzas are meant to describe the beautiful life they will have...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Since Sir Walter's Raliegh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" is written as the woman's response to Marlowe's invitational lyric, it becomes apparent to the reader of these two poems that...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
it is like standing up or having a moment of silence for the memory of someone who passed away, or it can be a ceremony to show respect
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe’s poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” is a poem written in the pastoral genre, a type of poem deriving from the works of Greek poet Theocritus, and typically set...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe's poem only reveals the passionate shepherd's point of view, so we don't really have any textual evidence of whether he was successful or not, but we can look at his approach...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
“Carpe diem” (seize the day) poetry is love poetry whose main function is to seduce the loved one, the recipient of the poem (a nymph, according to Sir Walter Raleigh’s reply), and to...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Literary devices are used by poets to make their meaning clearer in poems in only a few words. There are many types of literary devices used in poems. Three in this pastoral poem are heroic...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
This poem is a form of pastoral poetry, a type of poetry that deals with shepherds that is set in the countryside. It is essentially a call by the shepherd to a woman to enjoy the delights that...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
I agree with #2, though there is an undertone of haughtiness to the Nymph's reply. A rustic shepherd offers all he has, and the response is, of course, no. What he offers physically is fleeting,...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
This poem is the romantic wooing of a passionate shepherd in his efforts to convince a young woman to come join him. This line of the poem is the shepherd's description of the kinds of clothes the...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
This questions has already been asked and answered. Please refer to the link below. Thank you for using eNotes. URL:...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Pastoral poetry is characterized by its setting and subject. Pastoral poetry is about the "pasture" or rural life in a rural setting. Usually these poems glorify the simple life and work of...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Well, to understand this poem necessarily inolves some understanding of the word pastoral and how this impacted litreature. The word pastoral comes from the Latin word for shepherd. Pastoral poems...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Having read Marvell's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," (and "To His Coy Mistress"), and reviewing the eNotes summary for the poem, it seems, indeed, that this is a poem not so much about...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
In Andrew Marvell's poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," I find metphors, not similes. (Similes compare dissimilar things using "like" or "as.") The metaphor compares dissimilar things that...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
i don't understand ur question please make it clearer and i'ld love to help i've taken this poem :D
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The sounds of the English language have been divided into two categories: harsh-sounding, and soothing. The harsh-sounding consonants are: K,T,P,B. These sounds are sometimes referred to as...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The title identifies the speaker as the “passionate shepherd” and the listener as “his love.” The poem is a speech of persuasion in which the shepherd asks the lady to join him in love....
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The speaker of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a humble shepherd who makes a grand offer out of what he has. What he offers her is a kind of peaceful, rustic, simple life. Their time...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Pastoral poems present an idealized vision of life in the countryside; the scenery is beautiful, the people are honest and forthright, and the fresh air is full of passionate love. Christopher...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Actually, the writer of this poem was a male - Christopher Marlowe, so I have edited your question accordingly. In discussing the influence of the period in which Marlowe wrote, it is important to...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Nature in pastoral poetry is the ideal; it's Utopian, it's escapist. Pastoral poetry, using shepherds or shepherd-like characters and nature as an ideal and as an escape was popular until WWI, and...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," by Christopher Marlowe, is a beautiful example of pastoral love poetry; that is, it depicts love in a rural, countryside setting. The entire poem is an...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
When we think of the message of this poem we need to consider how it fits in to the literature of its day. This poem above all is a powerful "invitation to love" that has an old poetic tradition....
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
This poem fits into a group of poems classed as "carpe diem" poems - where the audience of the poem is urged to "seize the day" and make a decision to commit to a relationship now before time and...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
A major theme of pastoral literature is that true happiness can be found in rural areas. The city is a bad place, but the country is pure and good. I think you can see this (at least the part...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
In my opinion, many of the gifts the speaker offers his beloved are pretty ridiculous and are gifts that cannot possibly be given by a simple shepherd. For example, the shepherd can surely not give...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The tone of the poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' by Christopher Marlowe is thoughtful, contemplative and dreamy. The rhythm is gentle and sing-song - almost like a lullaby as if the poet...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The poem is a heartfelt invitation by the speaker to a person whom he wishes to live with him. Like all passionate speakers, he doesn't rely on logic to convince this person. Instead, he appeals to...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
The escape motif present in this poem is definitely captured in many media forms today. You need to remember that this poem is a pastoral poem. Pastoral poems are always set in an idealised...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe's (1564-1593) pastoral love lyric "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" is believed to have been written in 1588 when he was a student at Cambridge. It was published...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
There we will sit upon the rocksAnd see the shepherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals There is mild alliteration in this stanza, but it is a...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe's (1564-1593) pastoral love lyric "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" is believed to have been written in 1588 when he was a student at Cambridge. It was published...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
This poem is an example of the pastoral genre of poetry. Pastoral refers literally to the 'pasture' or the fields where shepherds lived in the pre-industrial era. But pastoral poetry as a genre...
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
I assume you mean "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh. They are often taught together and printed near one another in textbooks since parodies were popular during this time...