Comparing The Passionate Shepherd To His Love And Raleigh Was Right

The reality of life, love and nature are widely popular topics among humans. Everybody has different beliefs and ideas about it. Some people are more romantic, while others are a bit cynical. “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh and “Raleigh Was Right” by William Carlos Williams are all poems that show different viewpoints on life, love and nature. Williams developed and transformed the central idea of these three poems by connecting the shepherd’s and the nymph’s contradicting beliefs with his own. One way Williams does this is by using a metaphor in order to describe and connect their beliefs on love. In the poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe, the shepherd uses romantic words such as fragrant, finest,
In Marlowe’s poem, the shepherd promises his love many materialistic pleasures that are all made up of things from nature. For example, he promises her a cap made out of flowers, a kirtle made out of leaves of myrtle and a belt made out of straw and ivy buds. He describes them as being beautiful and very fairytale-like. He builds up this idea that nature is faultless and delightful. The nymph, however, has a very different approach on nature. She believes that it isn’t as perfect as it seems. This is proven when she says, “The flowers do fade, and wonton fields, to wayward winter reckoning yields.” Williams connects all of this by saying, “Cure it if you can but do not believe that we can live today in the country for the country will bring us no peace.” He believes that you can try and make nature or even life and love seem better, but that doesn’t mean that you should ever believe that they are perfect. They are not perfect. Nothing is perfect. That is how Williams further developed and transformed the central