The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Essay

The Passionate guard to His Love and The nymphs Reply to the Shepherd A comparison The Passionate Shepherd to His Love was written by ChristopherMarlowe. The poem describes a shepherds plea to someone he loves prodding them to give out with him.Marlowe uses imagery to describe the scenery around the shepherd andhis love. The shepherd tries to convince her how happy they lead be,surrounded by mountain yields and groves in stanza one.Marlowe does not only use imagery in his poem but he also describesthe aromaAnd a thousand fragrant posies.He creates a static atmosphere by describing the harmonious sound inthe second and third stanzas.Melodious birds sing madrigals.In the third stanza the shepherd tells his love that he will give heranything she wants if she lives with him. The shepherd names beautifulclothes in an attempt to persuade her,Fair lined slippers for the c elder,With buckles of the purest gold.In the fourth stanza the shepherd believes that he has succeeded inconvincin g his love to live with him. He describes what he believes tobe a vision of their future, pulling wool from pretty lambs togetherconveying a horse sense of unity.The beginning of stanza five is realistic as the shepherd offers togive his love a belt of straw and ivy buds. However towards the endof the stanza he says that he will give her coral clasps and amberstuds which is completely unrealistic as he is a shepherd who wouldnot be able to afford such gifts. In the shepherds desperation, heresorts to materialism as he believes this is the only way his lovewill be returned.The second poem The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd written by SirWalter Ralegh is the reply t... ...s beautiful scenery and clothes as a method ofpersuasion, whilst The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd tries toexpress a sense of realism to the shepherd informing him that thingsdo change like spring to autumn and youth to old age.In my opinion The Passionate Shepherd to His Love does deserve areply. After reading the p oem the reader assumes that his love willgo and live with him as he offers her everything she may want. It isquite unpredictable that she would refuse this offer and so the replygives the story a conclusion. Even though the reader feels empathy forthe shepherd as he is prepared to do anything for the nymph, weappreciate the nymphs point of view that nothing will stay the sameforever.Although the poems are both(prenominal) structurally similar, they expresscontrasting sentiments, a contrast which I feel makes these poems asuccess.