“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is asking the Nymph a question and within “The Nymph’s Reply,” an answer is given. Even though we can make a lot of comparisons between these two poems, the differences are very evident as well. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the persona talks about how life would be perfect if the Nymph came and lived with him. He is romantic, materialistic, and naïve in the way he tries to convince her to be with him. In the third stanza in “The Passion Shepherd to His Love”, the persona shows us his romanticism by referencing roses, posies, and a cap of flowers.
The poems “How do I love Thee” and “My mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun” are beautiful Petrarchan sonnets with a common theme which is love. Both poets talk about his/her love for another person. Though they are Petrarchan sonnets, they both have their differences and similarities in their form, figures of speech and subject matter. ‘How do I love Thee?’ is a poem written by Elizabeth Browning in 1850 in which she explains her intense love for a man. This is a Petrarchan sonnet; made up of fourteen lines, contains an octave, sestet, and volte.
In Christopher Marlowe’s poem, a shepherd, in an idyllic way, enumerates his love for the beautiful nymph. Sir Walter Raleigh offers a response to the shepherd’s proposal through the keen eyes of the nymph. Both poems succeed in giving personal points of view concerning how each sees the nature of love. If each point of view is placed side by side, we see an optimism in contrast to a pessimism struggle in the ideas of the poets. In “Passionate Shepherd,” we see Marlowe paint a peaceful scene, where the shepherd promises to fulfill all his love’s dreams.
Explain How The Rossetti Siblings Attempt to Convey Intense Emotion in the Two Poems? In both of the Rossetti siblings’ poems they use expressions to display intense emotion. In Christina’s poem the feelings are very positive, however, in her brother, Dante Gabriel’s, poem the emotions are quite the opposite. In ‘A Birthday’ the main body of the poem is filled with comparisons, the first stanza is describing the feelings in the narrator’s heart using references to the natural environment, ‘ My heart is like a singing bird whose nest is in a watered shoot.’ The last two lines of the stanza show that the emotions she is feeling are even more intense than these wonderful examples. She then explains why; ‘Because my love is come to me.’ The emotion that she is feeling is love, and she is suggesting that it is greater than the emotion she feels for other wondrous things.
Temple de Cupido, composed by Clément Marot in 1513-14, narrates a quest for love that is not susceptible to change – Ferme Amour. Some scholars consider this poem too artificial, imitative or immature (Pierre Jourda and C. A. Mayer). Other critics examine only one meaning of love: the agapè of the Christians (Edwin Duval, Cynthia Skenazi, Gérard Defaux). In my reading, I would like to show that the poem brings out all the possible meanings of the world love, the classical and the Christian. Lustful erotic love morphs into individualistic artistic creativity, artistic creativity changes into the selfless love of God.
Thesis: William Blake’s lyric “The Lamb” is a simple child’s song, in which he alludes to Christianity and some of its foundational beliefs. Introduction Quotation/Opening statement Thesis statement Summary Form Analysis Form Symbolism Conclusion Ingelisse Diaz Dr. Rock English 102-B40 Turabian 23 September 2014 William Blake’s “The Lamb” The Lamb is a poem written by the English poet William Blake (1757-1827). He is regarded as an early Romantic poet. His poems seem to have a lyric characteristic. Blake was a religion seeker, but not a Christian, however, “He warmly declared that all he knew is in the Bible.
Comparison and Contrast Essay By: Whitney Perry The pastoral poems " The passionate shepherd to his love" by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymphs reply to the shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh have many similarities such as the are both pastoral poems and they also have many differences such as in Christopher Marlowe’s poem the shepherd is trying to persuade a woman by telling her of all the great things he can provide/ give to her on the other hand as in Sir Walter Raleigh poem the nymph uses the same techniques and similar diction to reject the shepherd. First of all some of the most noticeable similarities in both the passionate shepherd to his love and the nymphs reply to the shepherd are that they both rely heavily on imagery to get the reader to understand the meaning and tone of the poem for example in the passionate shepherd to his love the imagery “seeing shepherd feed there flock” and “by shallow rivers to whose falls melodious bird sing madrigals.” The reader understands that the shepherd is trying to seduce a woman to come be with him. Not only does the imagery make the reader think about what the shepherd is trying to do but he images the shepherd and the nymph sitting on the rock above the river and can imagine the sound of the river and the fell of the smooth rocks beneath them. The poem by Sir Walter Raleigh also relies heavily on imagery to help the reader understand why the nymph reply’s to the shepherd the way she does. For example the “when rivers rage and rocks grow cold”, “the flowers do fade” help the reader understand that she is rejecting the shepherd and that the imagery from the nymphs reply to the shepherd is a 360 degree turn from the imagery in the passionate shepherd to his love.
Using nature to express picturesque images, Heaney portrays the purity of the unspoken terms of love in one of his love poems – “Twice Shy”. The title of the poem “Twice Shy” seems to have been taken from the age-old proverb, “once bitten, twice shy”, and we are, as a result, led to expect that the characters in this poem have had a bitter experience in the past, therefore they are treading carefully and attempting to recoup. There are five stanzas of 6 lines, most lines structured as single sentences which draw out tension and nervousness. The rhyme scheme is abcbdb – the rhythmic cadence emphasizes the speaker’s as well as the characters’ feelings and emotions. The theme of this poem is personal feelings – the conflict between needs of the flesh and teaching of society codes of behavior.
Robert Frost's poem, “Choose Something Like a Star” and John Keat's literary work,“Bright Star” share a common subject, but convey altered messages that are displayed through different and contradictory techniques.The theme in "Bright Star" is that when in love nothing is more beautiful than your lover. While the theme of "Choose Something Like a Star" is that humans need to be individuals. Both poets gaze for this same quality in the stars, but thematically and stylistically each poem has its similarities and differences. Both renowned poets, Keat and Frost agree that the star is abstracted from humanity as they know it, however Keats takes a personal approach to the star, whereas Frost takes a scientific approach towards the star and tries to acquire from it for social reasons.“Bright Star” contains lofty, formal kinds of words such as “thou art” and “splendor hung aloft” to show reverence toward the star. Keat’s specific word choices also contribute to the theme of the poem that man wishes happiness would last forever.
I believe that it uses rhyming couplets because the poem is called Song of the Old mother as it has the same structure as most songs do. Similarly “Anne Hathaway” ends upon a rhyming couplet: “I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head, as he held me upon the next best bed.” This sums up the overall message of the poem: that he will live on inside her mind. Perhaps “next best bed” could suggest that she doesn’t feel like she was his priority but loved him anyway. It is written in sonnet form because the poem is about love and most sonnets were written about