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Questions for "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"

2014-2015

AP Literature and Composition

Date Due

Feb. 12, 2015

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After reading "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" , by Sir Walter Raleigh, answer the following questions:

  1. Who is the speaker? What do we learn about the speaker? Who is the listener?
  2. How are the ideas of love and the world in this poem different from those in Marlowe's poem?
  3. To what extent is this poem a parody (an imitation that makes fun) of Marlowe's poem? To what extent is it a refutation of Marlowe's poem?
  4. Determine the steps of the speaker's logical argument in this poem.