How Did The Passionate Christopherd Sell His Love

The Love that Time Will Tell
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and the Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd express two different views. Christopher Marlowe’s, “The Passionate Shepherd to his love”, is one of many poems that he wrote in his short literary career of six years. Marlowe was born in Canterbury in February and died young at the age of 29. He attended King’s School and was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to attend Corpus Christi College. Sir Walter Ralegh, an English explorer, soldier, and writer, wrote “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd. He fought with the French Huguenots when he was seventeen, and later studied at Oxford. He was accused of treason by King James I, he was imprisoned and eventually put to death. Both poems were published in the 1590’s. Imagery used by the Shepherd proposes his love. Limit on time and how time effects love is how the Nymph rejects the Shepherd. The Shepherd is attempting to sell his love through pleasure and nature. Both poems express two views that are opposite of the other, and two different views of nature.
The Shepherd expresses natural imagery throughout his poem. Marlowe attempts to sell his love through pleasure. “Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove” (Marlowe lines 1-2). His pleasures consist of enjoying nature together, “And we will sit upon the

This could be from fear of commitment, or even the fear of falling in love. Perhaps, everything good in the Nymph’s life, didn’t last. The naive Shepherd is using materials, and things he can produce to persuade the Nymph. But, with time those things die or fade. The shepherd sees time as if it is everlasting with his love. The Nymph thinks love is for the youth. And over time that love fades and no longer breeds, making it become extinct. “But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, no age no need, Then these delights my mind might move” (Ralegh lines