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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love the Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Pastoral Poems and Sonnets The Passionate Shepherd to His Love RL 4 Determine the meaning Poem by Christopher Marlowe of words and phrases as they are used in the text; analyze the The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. Poem by Sir Walter Raleigh VIDEO TRAILER KEYWORD: HML12-312A Meet the Authors Christopher Christopher Marlowe was the first great in verse, including Raleigh’s “The Marlowe English playwright. In his brief career, Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.” The two 1564–1593 he transformed theater by showing the poems present sharply contrasting views potential power and beauty of blank verse on love. dialogue. Freethinker . and Criminal? Marlowe Rise to Fame The son of a poor was a freethinker who questioned shoemaker, Marlowe attended Cambridge established authority and religious University on a scholarship. By age 23, teaching, which gained him enemies in he was the best-known playwright in Elizabethan England. He was accused of England. His most famous play, Dr. being an atheist, a spy, a counterfeiter, Faustus, is about a scholar who sells his a traitor, and a murderer. Although soul to the devil in return for knowledge, he spent time in prison, he was never power, and pleasure. Marlowe also convicted of any crime. He died from a distinguished himself as a poet; his poem stab wound in a tavern brawl at age 29. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Some biographers speculate that he was was so popular that it inspired responses murdered for political reasons. Sir Walter Like his friend Christopher Marlowe, Sir Losing It All When the queen found Raleigh Walter Raleigh met a violent end. He was out that Raleigh had secretly married 1552?–1618 beheaded by an axe, which he called “sharp without her permission, she imprisoned medicine.” A soldier, explorer, and writer him and his wife in the Tower of who enjoyed wealth and power under London. Raleigh bought his way out Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh was imprisoned of prison and subsequently led several and executed by her successor, King James I. expeditions to the New World. But the The Queen’s Favorite According to legend, queen’s death in 1603 sealed his fate. Raleigh attracted Elizabeth’s attention by King James distrusted Raleigh, who was taking off an expensive cloak and spreading imprisoned for 13 years on a charge of it over the ground so she would not have treason. The king released him to lead to walk through mud. Raleigh became the a gold-finding expedition to South queen’s favorite, gaining a mansion and a America. But after that expedition ended monopoly on licensing wine. She also made in failure, Raleigh was executed. him a knight and captain of her guard. Author Online Go to thinkcentral.com. KEYWORD: HML12-312B 312 NA_L12PE-u02s11-brShep.indd 312 11/24/10 11:44:33 AM poetic form: pastoral A pastoral is a poem that presents shepherds in idealized rural settings. Renaissance poets like Marlowe and Raleigh used the pastoral form to express their feelings and thoughts about love Is passion and other subjects. Shepherds in pastorals tend to use courtly speech. The poems usually have metrical patterns and rhyme overrated? schemes that help give them a musical or songlike quality. The imagery derives from commonplace country settings, as Throughout the ages, writers have the following lines suggest: composed poems and songs describing the ardor of new love. But have people And we will sit upon the rocks, placed too much emphasis on passion Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks. in romantic love? Are other aspects of As you read these poems, look for details of pastoral life and for love—such as friendship, respect, and the use of nature imagery to convey emotions and ideas. trust—more important? QUICKWRITE reading skill: compare speakers Make a list of qualities that you think are important in a The speaker in a poem is the voice that addresses the reader, romantic relationship. Rank the items, much like the narrator in a work of fiction. Poets use the and then write a paragraph explaining speakers they create to express ideas or tell a story from the reasons for your ranking. a specific point of view. The speaker and the poet are not necessarily identical, even when the words I and me are used. The speakers in the following poems—the shepherd and the nymph—express very different attitudes about the topic of love. To identify the differences, consider • whom the speaker is addressing • the speaker’s choice of words • evidence of the speaker’s attitude toward the poem’s subject As you read both poems, use a chart like the one shown to make notes on the speakers’ differing attitudes toward love. Look for specific words and phrases that indicate their feelings. Shepherd’s Line Nymph’s Reply “I will make thee beds of roses” “flowers do fade” Complete the activities in your Reader/Writer Notebook. 313 NA_L12PE-u02s11-brShep.indd 313 11/24/10 11:44:47 AM The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove 2 prove: experience. That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. 5 And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. 8 madrigals: songs of a type popular during the Renaissance. And I will make thee beds of roses 10 And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle 11 kirtle: skirt or dress. Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; a a PASTORAL 15 Fair lined slippers for the cold, What characteristics of pastoral With buckles of the purest gold; poems do you find in lines 9–14? A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, 20 Come live with me, and be my love. The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing 21 swains: companions. For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love. Working Wool (1500). From the series of Noblemen in the Country. Loire Valley workshops. 314 unit 2: the english renaissance Louvre, Paris. © Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York. NA_L12PE-u02s11-Shepar.indd 314 11/24/10 11:57:29 AM NA_L12PE-u02s11-Shepar.indd 315 11/24/10 11:57:34 AM The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. 5 Time drives the flocks from field to fold 5 fold: a pen for animals, especially When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, sheep. And Philomel becometh dumb; 7 Philomel: the nightingale; dumb: The rest complains of cares to come. silent. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields 9 wanton: here, producing abundant crops; luxuriant. 10 To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies 15 Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten— In folly ripe, in reason rotten. b b COMPARE SPEAKERS Reread lines 13–16. How does Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, the nymph directly refute the Thy coral clasps and amber studs, shepherd’s promises? All these in me no means can move 20 To come to thee and be thy love. But could youth last and love still breed, Had joys no date nor age no need, 22 date: ending. Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love. 316 unit 2: the english renaissance NA_L12PE-u02s11-Shepar.indd 316 11/24/10 11:57:40 AM After Reading Comprehension 1. Recall What gifts does the shepherd offer his beloved in Marlowe’s poem? RL 4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they 2. Recall What does the shepherd ask from his love in return? are used in the text; analyze the impact of specific word choices on 3. Clarify In Raleigh’s poem, under what conditions might the nymph agree meaning and tone. to live with the shepherd? Text Analysis 4. Identify Pastoral Elements What details does Marlowe use to create an idealized portrait of the rural life of shepherds? 5. Make Inferences Reread lines 1–4 of “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.” What does this statement suggest about the nymph’s attitude toward the shepherd? 6. Draw Conclusions How would you describe the nymph’s view of each of the following subjects? Cite evidence from Raleigh’s poem. • lovers’ words • the value of love tokens • planning for the future 7. Analyze Imagery In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” note Raleigh’s use of imagery that reflects seasonal change. What idea is conveyed through this imagery? 8. Compare Speakers There are many lines in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” that parallel lines in “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” Refer to the chart you made as you read these poems. What do the statements reveal about each poet’s perspective on passion? 9. Make Judgments Raleigh was not the only Elizabethan poet who was inspired by “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” What qualities do you think made Marlowe’s poem so popular and intriguing? Support your opinion with evidence from the poem.
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