LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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is actually a young man
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says she’d rather have the money than him
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does not want the shepherd
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says that she’d only be with him if love could last
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Detailed explanation-1: -’The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’ by Sir Walter Raleigh is filled with pastoral images that contain a negative response to the shepherd’s plea. Throughout this poem, the nymph describes how time, pleasure, and all possessions, are fleeting. These joys won’t last forever, nor will impetuous choices and sweet words.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why does the narrator say she can’t be the shepherd’s love? Because life and love does not last. Because they live too far away from each other.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem of compassionate rejection in response to Christopher Marlowe’s poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” The reasons the nymph gives for her rejection are just excuses; her real reason for turning the shepherd down is her lack of love for him.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nymph might agree to live with the shepherd if the delights offered were not ephemeral and if the seasons did not change; if the joys were timeless and lasting, she would accept them.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.