A Time for Love

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This paper analyzes the concept of love, as seen through poetry. The paper specifically looks at the two poems "Come Live with Me and be My Love" by Christopher Marlowe and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh, which can be seen as a response to Marlowe's poem. The paper analyzes both poems and unfolds different points of contention within the poetry.

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"Each generation contemplates and frets over the emotion of love; it is over analyzed by all and dealt with in a variety of manners. Varying definitions are ever-present when discussing the issue. Both Marlowe's "Come Live with Me and be My Love" as well as Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" represent prime examples of diverging examples of love. In Marlowe's poem love is correlated with immediacy, the man in "Come Live with Me" is looking for Miss Right Now who he will take as his lover, not necessarily his wife; the intentions of the speaker in this particular poem could be considered questionable. Raleigh's poem can be seen as a response to Marlowe's poem. The speaker in Raleigh's poem, a woman, wants to know what will happen after the immediacy is gone, what will be the nature of their relationship in the long term? The woman seeks to make known and respond to what she considers to be impure intentions. The clever aspect of these poems lies in the way both authors represent time, their juxtaposition of mirrored pastoral imagery and beautiful flowery language used in expressing two dissimilar states of mind; one of which focuses on immediacy, and the other which provides a rebuttal and makes mockery of the immediacy presented."

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