ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Central to the nymph’s refutation of the shepherd’s argument is the lack of any consideration of necessities in the shepherd’s vision. Marlowe’s shepherd hopes to entice the nymph to live with him and be his love but offers her only luxuries and carefree passion.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

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 main idea of this poem is romantic love mingled with themes such as man, the natural world, and time. In this poem, a shepherd is presented as speaking to his beloved, evoking “all the pleasures” of the springtime.

Detailed explanation-5: -Irony Examples in The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd: While the shepherd uses these metaphors to convince the woman that he will love her forever, these lines show that his wooing ironically makes her think of his inconstancy, rather than his constancy.