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The Passionate Shepherd Vs Nymph
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A story about two love interests in two poems ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ and ‘ The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’ is written as a note to another and a response back to the other. They are both quite different than it seems but they still do have their similarities. Its like a Ying and Yang, Positive and Negative, Up and down. They may seem short, but they show a lot of positives and negatives. The way it goes can be such a sorrow when the Nymph hits him with the truth.
‘The Passionate Sheperd’s’ love is Idealistic, he believes too much of it without thought into what could happen later on as time goes. Lines 1-4 “Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove- That valleys, groves, hills,

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