Christopher Marlowe s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Sir Walter Raleigh s The Nymph s Reply to the Shepherd

1. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh Christopher Marlowe�s �The Passionate Shepherd to His Love� & Sir Walter Raleigh�s �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd�

2. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Plot Summary The Shepherd asks his love to come and live with him He offers her many gifts from nature to try to persuade her to live with him

3. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Gifts Pleasant views �And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields.� (2-4)

4. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Gifts Pleasant sounds �Melodious birds� (8)

5. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Other gifts of nature �beds of roses� (9) �a thousand fragrant posies� (10) �A gown made of the finest wool� (13) �buckles of the purest gold� (16)

6. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Pastoral Poem A type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherd and rustic life The word �pastoral� comes from the Latin word for shepherd, �pastor�

7. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Pastoral Poem Continued The lifestyle of the shepherd in this poem is idealized Nature is presented in a perfect way There are no defects or flaws of nature or the lifestyle of the shepherd Realistic ?

8. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Imagery Nature imagery dominates the poem

9. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Theme Love and Nature

10. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Setting The poem takes place in an idealized landscape Should not be surprising since this is a pastoral poem

11. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Repetition �live with me and be my love� Repeated in lines 1, 20, 24 Creates a sing-song effect Helps create an innocent tone

12. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Rhyme Scheme aabb ccdd eeff gghh iijj kkll the poem consists of six quatrains each quatrain is made up of two couplets

13. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Tone/Mood For the majority of the poem, the tone is peaceful, hopeful and innocent

14. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Passionate Shepherdto His Love� Poetic Devices Tone/Mood Major change at the end �If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love� (23-24) Diction �if� The use of the word if dramatically affects the tone of the poem �if� suggests confidence is lacking Maybe the shepherd begins to question if the gifts he offers will be sufficient

15. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Plot Summary Written from the perspective of the shepherd�s love Written as a response to the shepherd

16. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Discusses the reality of the situation not everything in nature is perfect �rocks grow cold� (6) �The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields� (9-10) �Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.� (13-16)

17. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Ends the poem by saying that if things were ideal, then she would live with the shepherd �But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love.� (21-24) therefore, we assume, because things are not perfect, that the answer is no.

18. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Anti-Pastoral Poem opposite of a pastoral poem things are not presented in an ideal way reality is the priority

19. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Imagery nature imagery dominates the poem the tone associated with the nature imagery is negative

20. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Theme Love and Nature Again, the tone associated with these themes is negative

21. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Setting The poem takes place in a realistic landscape Not idealized Should not be surprising since this is an anti-pastoral poem

22. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Repetition �to live with thee and be thy love� Repeated in lines 4, 20, and 24 Creates a sing-song effect Does it mock the shepherd?

23. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Rhyme Scheme aabb ccdd eeff gghh iijj kkll the poem consists of six quatrains each quatrain is made up of two couplets

24. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Poetic Devices Tone/Mood Established by diction

25. Geschke/English III Marlowe & Raleigh �The Nymph�s Reply to the Shepherd� Tone/Mood First word in the poem is �if� Most important word of previous poem suggested lack of confidence by the shepherd In this poem, if suggests that the shepherd�s promises are only fantasy Implies that the picture painted by the shepherd in not real Therefore, the tone is a realistic tone