Replies to Love Poems

Today we began our foray into our first unit of poems. We made little books with magic folding skillz and started with a personal favorite, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. After being offered beauteous flowers, serene vistas, and delicately made gifts, we read "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh. The Nymph, however, was not so keen on the ephemeral gifts of the Shepherd and declined his love that will one day wither.

In class to finish for homework:
Write a reply poem to the Shepherd or to the Nymph. Write saying how the Shepherd's offerings are pleasing enough to go live with him. Or write how the Nymph was right in declining the Shepherd. Or how the Nymph should take the Shepherd. Or how the Shepherd should offer more. Or..Or..Or... However YOU would like to respond to EITHER ONE of the poems.

Be sure your poem is:

• Set in rhyming couplets
• Twelve lines (may be longer)
• 3 quatrains (4-line stanzas)