LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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love is blind
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youth and love fade
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country life is hard
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In the final stanza of the poem, the speaker suggests that if youth could last and love was able to persevere throughout all the seasons. Plus, if joy did not have an expiration date then these “delights my mind might move“.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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.