In these two stories, you will find out that these two stories compare in some ways and in some ways they are also different. The main difference in the story would be that in Christopher Marlowe’s poem “The passionate Shepherd to his Lover” is an invitation, while Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply” is an answer to his proposal. There are a few similarities in these two poems also, but I would say there are mainly differences. In these poems the similarity would be how the Nymph repeats what the Shepherd offers to give her. The Shepherd says “And we will sit upon the rocks, seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks.” The Nymph’s reply would be “Time drives the flocks from field to fold when rivers rage and rocks grow cold.” You can tell that these two poems are connected as you read them. He offers her the best, but she finds a way to take his proposal and turn it around and make it sounds like nothing. The differences in the poems are that one is an invitation and one is an answer as I’ve said before. In Christopher Marlowe’s poem he says “If these delights thy mind may move, then live with me and be my love.” This is when the Shepherd asks the Nymph to be his lover. The Nymph’s replies and says, “Then these delights my mind might move to live with thee and be thy love.” The Nymph obviously doesn’t feel the same way as shepherd and turns him down. Another difference in the two poems would be the tone in them. In Marlowe’s poem his tone is romantic. He offers the