In Christopher Marlowe

In Christopher Marlowe’s poem, “The Passionate Shepherd and His Love.” The shepherd romanticizes the nymph to come and join him in his passionate world, but Raleigh illustrates in his poem “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd” that as time escapes them, all of the material times which had been offered to the nymph by the shepherd will soon fade away and be forgotten about. In Williams Carlos Williams’s poem “Raleigh was Right” he draws upon and transform vague images about nature, which first appeared in Raleigh and Marlowe poem in order to criticize Marlowe’s romanticized view of nature. In “Passionate Shepherd and His Love” Christopher Marlowe romanticizes the nymph by offering her material items which draw in her affection. In stanza two he says “there will we sit upon the rocks and see the shepherd feed their flocks, by shallow rivers, to whose falls melodious birds sing madrigals.” This means that the shepherd is trying to romanticize the nymph to join his natural world. Another key detail is stanza three in Marlowe’s poem. “