The+Nymphs+Reply+to+the+Shepherd

"If all the world and love were young and truth in eery shepherd's tongue" If the shepherd's promises were true and if the world/love would stay young forever she'd love him back. "In folly ripe, in reason rotten" They sound great when he's talking about it but realistically, it isn't as good as he's saying.
 * Title:** The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
 * Author:** Sir Walter Raleigh
 * Genre/Influence:** Published before 1599 but after the publication of Christopher Marlowe's poem, the Nymph's Reply is seen by many as mocking the traditional pastoral style of "The Passionate Shepherd." Raleigh was a known satyrist and he took a romantic poem and rewrote it in a more realistic way.
 * Distinguishable Poetic Decives/Stle:** The poem consists of 6 stanzas with 4 lines each, written in iambic tetrametre. Raleigh uses a lot of alliteration to match (and mock) the musical tone of Marlowe's poem. It is making fun of the fanciful ways of the Shepherd and the woman (nymph) adds "but" to her response, arguing with his ideas.It is written in the pastoral style to match "The Passionate Shepherd."
 * Historical Period/Influence:** The poem was written shortly after his imprisonment after losing favor with the Queen. Until then, Raleigh had been one of the Queen's favorites so this fall from high status to being imprisoned helps explain why the response is so abrupt and blunt. Raleigh is seen as one of the poets who resisted the Italian Renaissance.
 * Characters/Relationships:** While the shepherd is unrealistic in his promises and is truly in love with the woman, the woman realizes that his promises are fanciful. The woman rejects every idea that the shepherd presented to her and says that all things fade or die.
 * setting/Plot:** The shepherd confesses his undying love for the woman in Marlowe's poem whereas in Raleigh's we see the woman rejecting the shepherd's love and promises. She adresses everything he offers her and points out the faults in his ideas. She mentions that if youth, beauty, and love can last forever, then maybe they could be together.
 * Thematic Observations/Underline or Target Keywords:** The idea of fading if brought up constatly througout the poem (The flowers do fade) and death is mentioned as well. The theme is about being realistic. she can't love him and be with him since his primises are too fanciful and unrealistic.
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