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DATE
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh
Pupil's Edition page 2JJ
Love's Faulty Logic?
In "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Raleigh presents a woman's possible response to the
shepherd's overtures in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ." Raleigh's nltrvtor uses several
images to illustrate reasons not to be won over by the shepherd's argument. In the circle at the
center of the diagram, write her central reason. In the boxes surrounding the circle, write some of
the images that she uses to illustrate her point.
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L. Are the narrator's reasons credible, or do you think she is being excessively pessimistic? Explain
your answef.
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Do you think the nymph and the shepherd could eventually come to some agreement? Give
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