"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 two 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 Passionate Shepherd to His Love," the shepherd is expressing his love to the nymph. He asks her to …showed first 75 words of 555 total…

…showed last 75 words of 555 total…style's of the two poems. The only slight difference is that Sir Walter Raleigh used a lot more alliteration in his poem than Christopher Marlowe exercised in his. In conclusion, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" have many similarities and differences. Although the writing styles of the two poems are parallel, the content of the poems show that the authors did not agree in their sentiments of love.