The Shepard and the Nymphs reply

Christopher Marlowe’s poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” introduces a shepherd’s unyielding desire for a beautiful woman and his determination to capture her love. This man seems to offer the woman “all the pleasures prove”(2) of nature ranging from the “steepy mountains”(4) to “fragrant posies,”(10) in exchange for her love. The man goes on with his thick and endless wonders of love and life with this woman, and she simply comes back …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…is protecting herself from her feelings and heartbreak. The nymph always uses very contrasting ideas and seems to be able to turn anything beautiful into something dark and depressing. She uses phrases such as honey and gall, spring and fall, and ripe and rotten to describe the birth of love followed by the death of love. In her mind, time makes nature fade and die, and his love as well. In time “all do fade”.