"Come live with be my love" was said by the shepherd trying to proclaim his love to the nymph. Both poems shows much figurative language, and much lines that tells about love. However in both poems there was many difference, and much of it could be emphasized to show a different point of view.
First, in "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" it showed less materialistic love than how it was in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". The Shepherd showed more love in a way of giving everything she wanted, but the nymph did not want anything only his love. However she thought the shepherd was focusing on her appearance rather than how she really is. In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" it said things like "buckles of gold" and "beds of roses". However overall the Nymph wanted real love not materialistic.
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In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" he made many lines like "make the beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies" and " With coral clasps and Amber studs". They show that he would get anything and go anywhere as long as she becomes his love. In the "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" it showed a much different perspective. Lines like "Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten" bring a rather realistic point of view. She knows that all those object soon will wither and one day disappear, and that his reason for love was different than what she wanted. She want know objects that symbolizes his love but rather love from his
Sappho wrote poems about lust, longing, suffering, and their connections to love. Her poetry is vivid, to the point where the reader or listener can feel the sentiments rising from the core of his or her own being. The poetry truly depicts a realistic picture of the bonds of love. Through the subtle differences of the poems, "A Prayer To Aphrodite," and "Seizure," Sappho conveys the intensity of the longing and suffering of love.
Both “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” are written in iambic quatrameter. Both of the poems also consist of 24 lines. Another similarity in the style is that both poems a...
The two poems are both about love, a man trying to get a woman to love
A Comparison of 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' and 'The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd'
He makes various promises throughout the poem where he promises her to give all the good things in life which are very attractive in nature. So attractive, that it is very hard to resist a person who promises to make this wishes come true in real life. In the poem he says, “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;” (Marlowe). These are few of his promises which he offers to fulfill to his lover as he promises to give her a gown made from the finest wool and slipper with buckles of the purest gold. However, all the things which he is promises are not going to be fulfilled and would not last long enough to live a happy life. In which, he is just living in a world that is totally different from the real world. The life that he is wishing to live with his lover is the most complex issue of this poem. However, the only solution to this would be that he stops making such promises which would not last long enough and start to realize what a real life with her would feel
Wroth was considered to have shed light on “the formal complexity and variety…creation of female subjectivity, and their relationship to her life and social context” (Norton 1668). Wroth’s poem Pamphilia to Amphilanthus captures the feminine voice and subjectivity concerning courtly love; her poem helps to advance women out of the sphere of merely attainable objects and into their own person. In Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Wroth explores a contrary perspective to those of her contemporary poets; she focuses on the antithetical emotions that a lover experiences during courting. Throughout Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Wroth perverts the patriarchal tradition by evoking a female speaker; her poem opposes the courtly convention by presenting a feminine perspective and private devotion to her lover. The first two lines in Wroth’s poem, “When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove, / And sleep death’s images did my sense hire,” promptly discloses that the subject is love while simultaneously opposing the masculine voice and subjectivity concerning courtly love. Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus exemplifies courtly love by ridiculing the public and masculine perspective on it; she instead presents courtly love regarding a feminine perspective and private devotion. The speaker employs a motif for
The poem "The Nymph's Replay To The Shepherd" is written by Sir Walter Raleigh. This poem is reactiaction for the poem "The passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe's. "the passionate Shepherd to His love" poem talks about the about the moment love and the pleasure of the moment love. Malowe's believed that love should includes any future planning or promises and he emphasies living in the moment idea. The poem " The passionate Shepherd" idea is about love and how it suppose to be in present , it should not be attach to the future.
For example, ".we will sit upon the rocks," and "See[] the shepherds feed their flocks," being replied to with "Time drives the flocks from field to fold, when rivers rage and rocks grow cold." In the first line, Marlowe describes sitting on rocks watching flocks of sheep in the pasture below, while in the second Raleigh adds that the sheep have already been sent to their pens, no longer able to be seen, and the rocks intended for sitting will only grow cold. All of that being said, it can be seen upon closer examination of each of the poems that there is more meaning than just a rejection to a confession of love. When reading these two poems one after the other, one of the first things the reader should notice is the two contrasting tones. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" describes it with a highly optimistic tenor, while "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" leaves the reader feeling cold and lonely.... ...
In the poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, it tells the readers about a young shepherd who confesses his feeling to the girl he admires most. At the beginning of the poem, the shepherd requests to the girl to come and live with him and be his love forever. He says that if she accepts his proposal, he promises to give her everything and makes her happy by doing fun activities together. He promises that they will enjoy the valleys, groves, hil...
Many of the greatest poems, ballads, songs, stories, and epics share a common theme, love. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, that theme is found many times, but underlying that theme is the theme of unrequited love. For Ovid, anyone can be affected by it and in some cases, the other person does come to love the other in return, but the most common ending to the story is that it remains only the one in love while the other remains out. Ovid gives his readers several examples of unrequited love. But four of his finest show a god, a nymph, a cyclops, and a minor goddess being rejected and each dealing with rejection their own way.
The often-used first line makes the reader more familiar with poem. The speaker's love is expressed through two similes; his love is compared to “a red, red rose” and “the melody” (1, 3). The speaker echoes his sentiments by reinforcing two above similes with the phrases “That’s newly” and “That’s sweetly” (2, 4). Obviously, the color "red" is a symbol of passionate love and used in the form of alliteration such “a red, red rose” it shows how strong is the speaker’s feeling (1). Its appeal over time and comparison with the loved woman gives the reader the possibility to discover the speaker’s pleasant ways on art...
Though both poems do mirror one another, the tone of each poem divides the two poems apart. “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” represents the wishful and hopeful thinking of love. “The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd” represents the view of experience and old knowledge of the seasons that will change over time.
The shepherd is constantly offering only the best objects and possessions to this woman. "As precious as the gods do eat, shall on an ivory table be prepared each day for thee and me."(Marlowe 22) Marlowe is saying how his love for her is so amazing it is equal to the gods, and she deserves nothing less than to be treated like a goddess. His exaggeration of what he thinks she should deserve shows how much she means to him and how powerful his love is. By comparing her to a goddess he shows that he thinks of her as the perfect person and wishes to treat her that way with his love. Marlowe uses many other examples of hyperbole to show what he thinks his love deserves. "There will I make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies" (Marlowe 9) It would be impossible to actually make a bed of thousands of flowers, but the impossible is exactly what Marlowe is offering because he thinks his love is so amazing. This also shows how he promises her incredible things to get her to fall in love with him. These gifts show how madly in love the shepherd is for this woman, “The shepherd is promising the impossible” (Hacht) Although this shepherd would attempt to give his love these gifts it is overall impossible. This over exaggeration of what the shepherd believes he can give to this woman embodies many of the ideas of
During a first serious read through of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", one will notice the theme of the poem is going to be romantic and about the subject of love. This pastoral poem basically describes one lover attempting to convince another lover to be
But unlike most love poems, instead of saying she was more beautiful, he says that these things are much more beautiful than she. For example, in the first quatrain, the speaker says, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, / Coral is far more red, than her lips” (lines 1-2). The speaker says these things to show that the love for his mistress is unique and even though her eyes are nothing like the sun or her lips are bland without lipstick, he still loves her. He compares her the way any man would in today’s society. Men tend to overlook what is on the inside, but judge a woman by her looks. Another example, is in the second quatrain, he says, “Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks”(8). He constantly criticizes her and uses harsh words like reeks to show that even though he judges her for her outer beauty, he still loves