chadster987 Sep 28, 2009
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh gives an interesting take on "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe in that it describes the unrealistic love for which the shepherd is striving. The nymph elaborates by saying that if times were simpler and so many socioeconomic expectations did not need to be met, perhaps their love could flourish. As the world grows older and time progresses, the shepherd will eventually fail and he will not be able to support the nymph; as reality sets in, his dreams will be revealed as implausible. The nymph realizes this and, in order to hide this fact, the shepherd must, essentially, lie about what he sees or wants for them.
The nymph states that all the great promises and fanciful dreams that shepherd posits for them will not make her love him because while their fulfillment would be nice, she knows that he could not accomplish them for her. Having ideas of a future together and to be in lust would be pleasurable in the moment, but in the long run it would only cause the two misery as the relationship encounters hardships and eventually dies in a sad, disastrous ending because the relationship is not founded and has no stability. If the two could be young forever and be able to live on love alone, the couple might succeed but because there is so much more to a relationship than love itself, they need to be realistic and realize that they can never be together.
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Valeria2010 Sep 29, 2009
In the “Nymph's reply to the Shepherd”, the author emphasizes that love cannot be all in a relationship thus foreshadowing the poor relationship that the lovers will have. In “The Passionate Shepherd to his love”, the lover idealizes the perfect love life with his woman. He speaks about the future and how he will fulfill all her needs. Even though he promises her beds of roses, fragrants of posies, and even gold, the man cannot give her that because he is of a poor/middle class. He speaks only of love and how their love will make them feel without mentioning the other essential factor that come with a relationship. In “Nymphs reply to the Shepherd”, the author is realistic about a love relationship. He states that though there is love, there have to be other things too. For example, a relationship consists of responsibilities. A man must work thus burdening him with stress and women must take care of the home a raise a child. Through out his response he questions whether love will last and whether it will suffice and replace the other factors that make a decent relationship.
After reading the “Nymphs reply to the Shepherd”, I still believe that the man from “The Passionate Shepherd to his love” just want to be with the women momentarily. In other words, he just wants to have sexual relations with her to satisfy his needs. In order to get to her heart, he must first lure her and seduce her by provoking emotions in her that would make her want to be with him too. He promises her many things, even the ones he cannot offer her, thus making him desperate to be with her to the point of false promises.
brittany_1171 Sep 29, 2009
In the "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh the writer is addressing the desires of the young and naive shepherd from Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". The shepherd describes all of the fanciful and unrealistic things that he will provide for his love, hoping that his feelings do not go requited and he presents abstract ideas of the life that the two will lead although his occupation and overall position in life would prove these ideas to be unrealistic. Although we as readers see that this shepherd is only a naive and simple minded individual, his short-lived love for the one he is addressing shows that he is willing to dedicate himself to the happiness and well being of his lover. Unfortunately, in the reply by the nymph, the nymph see's through the romantic concepts the shepherd presents and allows reality to come into view. She explains that though the idea of their love being everlasting is appealing, it cannot surmount the obstacles that will come their way. With time the love that the shepherd is perceived to have will fail and life will not be the fairytale the shepherd is describing. She knows that his naive love is not something that will stabilize the relationship on any level, not financially nor for a long period of time, and she explains that if the world was naive and filled with rainbows as the shepherd has described it, this love would be plausible but its time to wake up. The couple had the ideas of love and happiness, but lacked the foundation. The nymph sees that love is not enough and that once this passion dies, their relationship will ultimately fail.
cesar_lazy Sep 29, 2009
In the "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Ralegh, the nymph expresses how she feels about the shepherd's love addressed in Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love". The shepherd expressed his love and said that he would give her many things to make her happy and satisfy her. He even mentioned he will bring her gold. However he has an unrealistic view of their future and he will not be able to give her all these gifts he claims he will. He believes love alone will help them survive. The nymph sees something wrong with his way of thinking. She knows that he does not see the bigger picture and is only focused on his love. She says that his love will not last long and in time it will be lost, thus ending their relationship. Despite the shepherd's work to get her to love him, he fails to convince her. At the end, she says that perhaps if he would remain this loving throughout the years until death seperates them, perhaps she would love him.
The poem talks about young love, the love that blinds people and fills their minds with wonderful, but unrealistic ideas, of how their future will be. They believe they will be able to provide with so many things, but in the end they realize life is harder than they thought and they fail to fulfull such claims.
Number76_Marco Sep 29, 2009
In the "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh essentially ridicules the attempts of the shepherd to court with a specific individual in the poem "To His Coy Mistress". By preseting many "if" situations, or in other words hypothetical situtations that are more than likely to not happen; Raleigh ridicules and scoffs the "cute" attempts of the shepherd to win over the female. Furthermore, Raleigh uses the lyrical notion of the poem to make humor out of the shepherd by ending and coupling lines with words such as: "forgotten" and "rotten", "gall" and "fall".
For the majority of the poem, Raleigh goes on to ridicule and scoff Marlowe's proposed ideas of love and courtship. However, in the last stanzas; Raleigh shifts from a critizing perspective to an accepting perspective. By stating "Could youth last...Had joys no date", or in other words in the hypthetical world that the shepherd promised were real, then courtship would be possible between the two. Thus by stating this in the last stanzas, the nymph admits to the need to have faith or wishes in timelessness and immortality.
MS-MERRITT Sep 29, 2009
Very impressive! Excellent responses!
Hannah_0025 Sep 29, 2009
In the "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh, the author foresees the importance of a long-term relationship in order to successful life with a companion. “The passionate shepherd to his love” by Christopher Marlowe, the shepherd takes advantage of the woman’s immatureness in order to gain his personal interest. The shepherd expresses how they both could live a wonderful life, yet he is a farmer that doesn’t have any luxuries or stability in his life. “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;” the shepherd is tactful in embellishing all the possibilities they could have in the future without a doubt. Both authors criticizes’ one another in order to create a deeper sense to the idea of love, sex, and life.
These poems talk about love, yet both authors have a distinct observations to the idea of running a way with a person you lust, "love", and leaving everything that has always matter the most. These authors create valid points to an extent that others think twice about a certain idea or action. For the lack of words these two authors have created greater meaning to differentiate love and lust.
Miguel_87 Sep 29, 2009
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shephard" by Sir Walter Raleigh is a response to the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. In the Nymph's response, the satirizes and basically rejects the shepherd's offer of a relationship together. The nymph satirizes by rejecting and refuting the hypothetical world the shepherd offered the nymph. The shepherd offered the nymph a lovely, happy world if they were to be together. The nymph refutes that by stating that it is not possible, when she says "If all the world and love were young,and truth in every shepherd's tongue". This first line ruins the mood set up by the shepherd and She refutes it because his hypothetical world would be impossible to live in or reach due to the fact that he is a shepherd and therefore poor. Raleigh mocks the shepherd's poem by mimicking the alliteration and rhyme scheme used in Marlowe's poem, therefore adding a humorous touch to the poem. The last stanza, however shifts to an accepting tone, where the nymph states that if the world was how the shepherd promised, then she will surely be his love.
Miguel_87 Sep 29, 2009
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shephard" by Sir Walter Raleigh is a response to the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. In the Nymph's response, the satirizes and basically rejects the shepherd's offer of a relationship