FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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yes
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no
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -"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-2: -In Raleigh’s poem, the young woman (now described as a nymph) gives her a reply: an emphatic, resounding no! In her view, the shepherd’s vision is totally unrealistic, conveniently glossing over how nothing-not youth, love, nor “pretty” gifts-can escape the destructive forces of time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marlowe’s clever use of poetic devices like internal rhyme, assonance, consonance, and alliteration, provides the music in the background by keeping the tone of the poem musical without reducing it to the sing-songy verse often associated with iambic tetrameter.
Detailed explanation-4: -In lines 9 and 10, the nymph argues that spring’s flowers fade, and wanton, or luxurious, overly-fertile, fields will eventually wither up in the cold weather.