Diction can be defined as a style of writing determined by the choice of words the author uses. All in all, both poems use similar imagery to describe a pastoral lifestyle but their diction is what sets these two poems apart. In other words, the imagery is still of the gifts offered by the shepherd but the nymph uses imagery such as “wither,” and “rotten” to show the pleasures of having these gifts will not last forever. On the contrary, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” Sir Walter Raleigh says, “Thy gown, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy poses soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten in folly ripe, in reason rotten”(Raleigh 914). In other words, the imagery of the materialistic items illustrates what the shepherd is willing to offer if this lady will be his love. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe provides imagery of the beautiful pleasures the shepherd has to offer he says “And I will make thee bed of roses and a thousand fragrant poses, a cap of flowers, and a kirtle embroidered all with leaves of myrtle” (Marlowe 914). However, the imagery of these two poems may be of the same thing, but their views on what it may look like are entirely different. Both poems provide the reader with imagery of fields of flock, flowers, rivers, and material things made from nature. The imagery in both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is of the country life. Imagery is used in literature in order to describe or enhance sensory experiences to the text. While both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” use the same writing style, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” uses different poetic elements such as tone, imagery and diction to spoof “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. In other words, the nymph shuts him down and even if the shepherds gifts where ever-lasting then it would still Just be a maybe. In The Nymph’s Reply, the nymph’s idea of the shepherd’s ever-lasting gifts is comical. ” Sir Walter Raleigh pretends to write in the tyle of the original poem but exaggerates that style and changes the content for comic effect. On the contrary, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is a parody to “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. “The Passionate Shepherd to His love” idealizes the shepherd’s country life to try and win the love of his lady. Moses, chastened, finds the shepherd again and apologizes to him.Poetry Analysis “The Passionate Shepherd to His love” by, Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by, Sir Walter Raleigh are both pastoral poems that tend to basic human desires in a simplified country life of beauty, music, and love. Therefore, says God, let everyone pray in their own way. Moreover, says God, while the shepherd may have a wrongheaded conception of God, it's quite prideful of Moses to believe that Moses' own conception is any closer to God's actual transcendent nature. All prayers are valuable, says God everyone worships in his own way and God is not offended by familiarity nor ignorance. The shepherd abjectly apologizes and rends his garment in contrition.īut God Himself immediately rebukes Moses for discouraging the faithful shepherd. Moses rebukes the shepherd for attributing human characteristics to God, and also for speaking to God in such a familiar manner. The shepherd promises to wash God's clothes, to bring God milk to drink, to comb God's hair and kill his lice, and other such actions as one might do for a beloved friend. The story tells how Moses one day happens to overhear an ignorant shepherd praying to God. Moses and the Shepherd ( Persian: موسی و شبان) is a story from the 13th-century Sufi work Masnavi, by the Persian poet Rumi.
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