What Is The Mood Of The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

With Christopher Marlowe’s and Sir Walter Raleigh’s simple poems, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, there are many different literary devices as well as ideas which are embedded within both of the poems. Regarding the first of the poems, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, there are many important concept which are necessary to observe. The title is a simple title and easily explains what the poem is going to be about, being that the shepherd speaking to his love about his passion for her. The poem begins with a simple couplet rhyme scheme, a course of action which would perfectly fit with Marlowe’s idea of a perfect countryside, with simple beauty around the characters. The rhyme scheme continues uninterrupted until reaching lines 19 and 20, where the rhyme reverts back to AA instead of the expected JJ. The poem would then proceeds to lines 21-22, where they would contain the JJ rhyme,
An idea that is not directly mentioned is that of the personalities of the characters. Since both poems are pastorals, there is the use of both sophisticated and naïve characters. In this case, the shepherd would be classified as the naïve character while the nymph would be sophisticated. The reason behind this would be because of the fact that the shepherd believes that gifts and experiences are the way to sway his love yet the nymph has a more philosophical view where she believes that there not matter the physical gifts, there is no substitute for real love. The nymph had a more sophisticated understanding of the world and sees that the shepherd is not able to hold all of his promises. With this idea, the poems show the lesson about how society should not distinguish love through the values and amounts of physical gifts through the response and reasoning of the