In the poem “ The Nymph’s reply to the Shepherd”1 Sir Walter Raleigh’s nymph believes the shepherd only wants her for her physical beauty‚ and as her beauty fades his shallowness will be revealed. Raleigh proves this intent by contrasting the idealistic world the shepherd offers with the reality they live in‚ and by criticizing the things the shepherd would her. This viewpoint is important because it highlights Raleighs willingness to highlight a point of view usually not heard in sonnets.
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Both "The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd" poem by Raleigh and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" poem by Marlow are written in the same structure and they contain most of the same elements‚ but they differ in the purpose; one is an invitation and the other one answer it. The difference between the poems is that they have different purposes; Marlow’s poem is an invitation: the shepherd is trying to convince his love to come and live with him for what he claims to be wonderful in the rural life.
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"The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd" was written by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Christopher Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". It could be considered a criticism‚ or at least a negative reaction to the original poem‚ as the nymph is in fact rejecting the shepherd in question quite harshly‚ and includes many lines that are directly connected to propositions made in Marlowe’s poem. Others read the poem as a critique of the entire pastoral convention‚ suggesting through its use of
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“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” By Sir Walter Raleigh Summary: “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is Sir Walter Raleigh’s response to a poem written by Christopher Marlowe‚ “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” In the Marlowe poem‚ the shepherd proposes to his beloved by portraying their ideal future together: a life filled with earthly pleasures in a world of eternal spring. Raleigh’s reply‚ however‚ debunks the shepherd’s fanciful vision. While Marlowe’s speaker promises nature’s beauty and
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views of love expressed in “The Passionate Shepherd” and “The Nymph’s Reply.” The passionate shepherd believes that love can be bought through gifts. While in “The Nymph’s Reply” the Nymph believes that love can’t be bought. The shepherd is buying/getting the Nymph gifts to try and persuade he to come live where the weather is peaceful but the Nymph does not want to leave her home.The shepherd thinks that being materialistic‚ it can buy love. The nymph believes love isn’t going to last for long‚
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Close Reading Close reading is an essential task that demonstrates key skills; it is used throughout the Language and Literature course. Specifically‚ it is used mostly in Part 4 (Detailed Study of Literature) where students complete an IOC (Individual Oral Commentary) on a text studied. Process Skills 1. Read the passage/extract 2. Reread it 3. Annotate for key areas 4. Plan a response 5. Write your response 6. Edit your response Understanding – show the teacher/examiners that you understand
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Close Reading There are those things in life that hardly take any time to become an expert at. Close Reading is not one of those things. Close reading can most simply be defined as the technique of taking a piece of writing piece by piece and hyper-analyzing every little bit of it. The concept may not seem too difficult and complex‚ however‚ most of the thinking behind it is metacognition. Metacognition is the word for thinking about the way you think. Both of these concepts are incredibly important
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A Close Reading Exercise From: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Literature/21L-003Fall2003/E3B42E8B-1A45-447E-938E-7CC3C79F6FC2/0/notes_on_close_reading.pdf What does it mean to read a text closely and analyze it? Why do we do close reading in literary study? The answers to these questions emerge more from the doing than the talking. Briefly‚ close reading is a basic tool for understanding‚ taking pleasure in‚ and communicating one’s interpretation of a literary work. The skills employed
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dass can encourage you and form the basis of a community that will help and sustain you. But that dass‚ as helpful as it was‚ is not where I learned to write. *itirg ike most-maybe all-vriters‚ I learned to write by and‚ by example‚ from reading books. Instead I answer by recalling my owu most valuable experienee not as a teacher‚ but as a student in one of the few fietion workshops I have ever taken. This was in the 1970s‚ during ny brief careLr as a graduate student in
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Close Reading Chapter 13 Pg.264 Briefly explain the context of the passage: The narrator is on a walk after an attempt to get out of the house to clear his mind. He bumps a woman on his way out and she calls the narrator an inappropriate name causing the narrator to speed up. Well thinking about places he could go the narrator reaches a vendor who is selling yams instantly reminding him of the south. The interaction with the vendor causes a sense of homesickness within the narrator. Passage
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