Comparing Sir Walter Raleighs The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd to Chr

Comparing Sir Walter Raleighs The nymphs state to the ward to Christopher Marlowes The Passionate sheepman to His Love Sir Walter Raleigh wrote The houris Reply to the Shepherd in 1600 to respond to Christopher Marlowes The Passionate Shepherd to His Love written in 1599. In The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, the Shepherd used double-entendres and vague familiar images in an attempt to trick the Nymph into performing informal intercourse with him. The Shepherd attempted to convince the Nymph that he would tot up her the various presents and pleasures that he described, but in reality his gifts unaccompanied comprised of sexual meanings. However, the Nymph was exceedingly intelligent and conscious of the Shepherds hidden seductions. She was so smart, that she in haste rejected the Shepherds proposal by using the exact words that the Shepherd used in his request. The Shepherd in Marlowes poem used conceal sexual images in hope that the Nymph would be attracted to him. T he Shepherd initiative conjureed the Nymph ...valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / woods, or steepy mountain yields ( ). He hopes that the Nymph would interpret the images as places he would like to take her, but in actuality the Shepherd was describing to the Nymph the various parts and curves of her body which he would like to explore. The Nymph replies to his offer by stating The flowers do fade, and wanton fields, / to wayward winter reckoning yields ( ). Which agency that things change and though the Shepherd has a sexually unrestrained body, that through time he will be keep an eye on headstrong and unwilling to impact the sexual pleasures. As the poem continues, the Shepherd offers the Nymph a fringe of straw and ivy buds ( ). The belt and ... ... have moved you, then come live with me so that we may continue making these pleasures. The Nymph replied with If law in every shepherds tongue/ these pretty pleasures might me move (2-3). She would be moved by what the Sh epherd said if he wanted more than from her than just a sexual relationship. Through reading the works by Marlowe and Raleigh its determined that the shepherd had only sexual feelings for the Nymph. The poems showed no acts of love, only sexual desires that the Shepherd was feeling and a strong sense of rejection from the Nymph. The Nymph did an extraordinary job of standing up for herself. The Shepherd failed in his visualize to trick the Nymph and ended up looking like a jackass. Works CitedMarlowe, Christopher. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. From The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Sixth ed. New York Norton, 1993.