FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Christopher Marlowe
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William Shakespeare
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Thomas Hardy
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1599), by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603).
Detailed explanation-2: -"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1599), by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603).
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Passionate Shepherd” is a poem of seduction. In it, the speaker tries to convince his listener to come to the country and be his lover. The speaker makes his case on the basis of the luxuries they will enjoy together in the countryside, describing it as a place of pleasure that is at once sensual and innocent.
Detailed explanation-4: -This poem by Sir Walter Raleigh uses the same meter and references to present “mirror images” of Marlowe’s poem. The feminine persona (the nymph) of the poem sets up a hypothetical set of questions that undermine the intelligence of the man’s offer because all that he offers is transitory.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1600), by Walter Raleigh, is a poem that responds to and parodies the poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1599), by Christopher Marlowe.