"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh, is a reply to the poem written by Christopher Marlowe entitled "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." These poems are uniform as well as diverse in several ways. They are written with an invariable writing style, yet they have very different opinions on love. In the two texts there are things absent that differentiate both poems. In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Marlowe makes his character out to be a big romantic that will do
to make his by focusing on love, time, and nature. Williams also restated Raleigh and Marlowe’s argument and agreed with Raleigh by saying “you cannot find peace in the country” (lines 1-3). The shepherd does not think about time when he attempts to give the nymph gifts, but the nymph says sooner or later the nature-made gifts would die. Williams agrees by saying “love itself a flower with roots in a parched ground. Empty pockets make empty heads” (lines 17-20). When Williams says, “Love itself a