ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In the third stanza, the shepherd offers the first of many promises he will keep if the woman agrees to come and live with him. He promises to make her “beds of roses.” One bed is not enough; she is deserving of more than one bed, although certainly the couple would have no need for more than one bed.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: He promises her gifts and all the pleasures found in nature, if she will consent to be his love and spend the rest of her life with him. The poem uses nature imagery to draw a connection between spring and romance.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh’s response to a poem written by Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” In the Marlowe poem, the shepherd proposes to his beloved by portraying their ideal future together: a life filled with earthly pleasures in a world of eternal spring.

Detailed explanation-4: -The shepherd offers the pleasures of nature: a bed of roses with a thousand poises, a cap of flowers, and a kirtle [skirt or dress] embroidered with leaves of myrtle; a gown of the finest wool along with slippers and gold buckles; and a belt of straw and ivy buds with coral clasps and amber studs.