The Nymph Rejects the Shepherd Essay -- Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd

The Nymph Rejects the Shepherd The Nymphs serve to the Shepherd is Sir Walter Raleighs poem of compassionate rejection in response to Christopher Marlowes poem The torrid Shepherd to His Love. The reasons the nymph gives for her rejection are just excuses her real reason for tour the shepherd down is her lack of love for him. The nymph responds to the shepherds proposal to semen live with me and be my love (1) by saying all of the things he wants to give her will fade, whither, and be forgotten therefore, she cannot accept his offer. The shepherd lists in his poem many beautiful things he will give the nymph and all of the wonderful things they will do together. And we will sit upon the rocks, / see the shepherds feed their flocks...And I will make thee ...