This, folks, is both an allusion to Greek mythology, and a poetic symbol that packs a lot of punch. Because life and love does not last. Because they live too far away from each other. Because she cannot stand him. Therefore, one of the themes is that love or passion without truth is not worth pursuing. The entire poem is composed of six four-line stanzas, or quatrains, just like the one above.
Each quatrain is made up of two rhyming couplets, the majority of which are written in perfect iambic tetrameter and, if you use Renaissance-era pronunciation, rhyme perfectly.
Repetition is the technique of repeating the usage of same word ,sound or idea to create the overall effect of the Poem. Repetition of a word image in a poem indicates the readers of the poem in other words it shows them the importance of the repeated part and also makes it easier to recall the instance of the poem. In the poem, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love written by by Christopher Marlowe, he evoked the time and place in stanzas to develop a central idea by evoking all the pleasures of the springtime.
The speaker is a shepherd who tried to persuade his beloved to stay with him in the countryside. The place and the central theme are love and nature, as well as time and the way it develops this by evoking time and place in stanzas is that it gives us an image of a spring environment in May with shepherds dancing and singing to the delight of his love.
A word choice is an important part of any communication. It is a manner in which something is expressed in words. Study Guide. By Sir Walter Ralegh. Previous Next. Philomel As we mentioned in the " Summary ," Philomel, or Philomela, is the name of a Greek goddess who was turned into a bird. Line 7 Philomel as musical instrument : It makes a lot of sense for Ralegh to be talking about a philomel, the musical instrument. Shepherds were frequently depicted playing musical instruments, so the idea that their songs are fleeting and don't last forever certainly fits into the rest of the imagery of impermanence that Ralegh has been throwing at us.
The poem begins and ends her explanation in the subjunctive mood; this helps set up the rhetorical style of the poem as she contrasts the hypothetical vision of the shepherd to her own morally reflective understanding.
The diction of the poem is alluring. This sense of mockery is found in the end-rhyme of each line. The words forgotten and rotten, which are taken from the end of the fifteenth and sixteenth lines, help focus the imagery in the poem. The nymph explains to the shepherd that any gift he may give, to win her heart, will soon grow old, break, and be forgotten. It quickly becomes apparent throughout the poem that the nymph is attempting to help the shepherd. While the shepherd can only focus on his love for the nymph, thinking only of the gifts that he will give her, she attempts to show him the irony of their discourse, relaying to him the mortality of his pastoral life.
The first is the thematic approach of the entire poem itself. Behind the great insight of the timeless nymph, there is a structural understanding of life itself, something the shepherd is not utilizing in his conquest. She is wise because she understands the basis of a mortal life; this would be the understanding of her reason, and is portrayed in the entirety of the poem.
Without reason, there can be no insight. Through reason, she approaches the reasoning of the shepherd, or lack thereof. When the shepherd compares his love for the nymph with the life that he lives, he offers her gifts, for everything he knows as a mortal being is materialistic and temporary.
Giving a materialistic gift to the nymph would be folly. The real world that she attempts to show in her rejection of the shepherd predicates the fourth and final theme within the poem, the understanding of time. Through a better understanding of mortality, reasoning, love, and time, the nymph sets out to help the shepherd comprehend the foundation of her rejection, why a life together would not work. Through the undying timeless beauty that is the nymph, it seems as though the shepherd has lost all consciousness of reasoning as he attempts to fabricate his love for her through gifts and mortal standards or ideals.
From the beginning, it should have seemed to the shepherd that this relationship could have no avail, and that simple deductive reasoning would bring about a quick denouement. The lack of reasoning is what creates this poem, and throughout the text, the nymph tries to revive reason within the shepherd.
The lack of human reasoning throughout time is alluded to within the last lines of the second-to-last stanza. Brooke goes one step further and relates these lines to the creation story within the Bible. In the beginning, there was still reasoning, for there was free will; free will will encompass reasoning because of the brain's natural ability to put value on right and wrong. It always seems hardest to explain reason, when those who you are reasoning with have no sense to listen.
As the nymph rejects the shepherd, she focuses on helping the shepherd realize that he is not in love with her, but in lust. The aspect of explaining his folly must be the most difficult task in her trilemma. If at first reasoning fails, surely the task of making someone realize their lust over love must prove to be much more difficult. By saying these lines, the nymph clearly expresses that the shepherd's love for her is much like a momentary season and will soon pass out of existence, just as summer must one day turn to winter.
With the passing of this feeling, the shepherd will come to realize what the nymph had been trying to tell him the entire time, and he will realize that all he had offered such as gifts and emotion eventually wither and fade.
She tells him that not even the deepest love between two beings can last, that young love grows old, and never stays young.
She states that neither her world, nor the world of the shepherd stays the same, and she determines that everything grows with age, just as love will grow and eventually die with the mortality of the human body. However, there is a twist at the end of the poem where the nymph speculates on impossibility. In the last stanza, the nymph shows signs of the first glimmer of positive hope:.
For the first time, we are given the thought of what the nymph would be like if she were mortal. It helps show that even though all odds seem against certain something, there can still be a glimpse of hope left in the mind.
It concludes the end to all things as they eventually will rot once the life has been taken from them.
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