Thursday, February 9, 2012

Which of the following lines best demonstrates tone of "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Ralei

Which of the following lines best demonstrates tone of "The .Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh?

"a.The flowers do fade, and wanton fields/To wayward winter reckoning yields."

b."Then these delights my mind might move/To live with thee and be thy love."

c."These pretty pleasures might me move/To live with thee and be thy love."

"d.If all the world and love were young/And truth in every shepherd's tongue."

Which of the following lines best demonstrates tone of "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Ralei
I believe the last option most clearly emphasizes the "thrust" of Raleigh's poem and its reply not only to Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd to His Love" but to all of the pastoral traditon of carpe diem poetry, in that it clearly brings justification to a more rational and realistic paradigm and questions the either sincere or affected flighty romanticism that the usual speaker took in order to enter women's pants.
Reply:"a" sounds like your best bet, but why did you post it in this section?


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