LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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harsh and indifferent
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wild and dangerous
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a source of beauty and joy
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marlowe is developing an interdependent relationship, or a harmonious relationship, between nature and love.
Detailed explanation-2: -The sun, the moon, old and young trees, beautiful daffodil flowers and green surroundings are some of such beautiful things. Small streams with clear water, thick mass of ferns, thickets of forest and musk-rose are some other things of beauty. All such things of beauty are a constant source of joy and happiness to man.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marlowe and Spenser are the first of our poets who perceived the beauty of words’ (MacLure, pp. 89–91). For these reasons, John Addington Symmonds in 1884 can style Marlowe ‘the father and founder of English dramatic poetry’ (MacLure, p.
Detailed explanation-4: -The exceptional subject of this work is of joy and optimistic love. The poems “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir William Raleigh, and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe have the same central theme, that love and nature are beautiful but don’t last forever.