When hardships arrived, it was common for some to turn to the country as refuge from cold industrial prison mankind built for itself. Christopher Marlowe did just that in his poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” . However, the peace caught the eye of two other writers, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Carlos Williams. Raleigh shedded a realistic light on the idealistic portrait that was made in “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” Further down the scale of disbelief, William Carlos Williams gave his own pessimistic take on the subject with the poem “Raleigh was Right". Through their writing, all three men express clearly how they feel nature should be regarded and what it can supply for humanity.
During his lifetime, Marlowe felt that humanity was straying to far from the country, taking up a life machines and smoke instead. In his poem he romanticized nature and its resources, having a very idealist air about the peace. For instance, while he speaks as a…show more content… Pressed with complex feeling when he was faced with the second world war, a bitterness allowed itself fester in his work. He lands squarely on the other side of romanticism. He lacks the leeway Raleigh graciously gave to Marlowe giving his words a pessimistic palette. His lack of patience wish such romanticism is highlighted when he questions the plausibility of an easy going life in the country. “long ago! long ago! when country people would plow and sow with flowering minds and pockets at ease – if ever this were true.” Unlike Raleigh, Williams's structure in his poem is very different than what he’s responding to. Jarringly placed lines are a constant throughout the peace. A cold, raw bluntness is expressed with how short and non descriptive it is comparatively. He’s extremely short wined with his lines and harsh with his message. “...but do not believe that we can live today in the country for the country will bring us no
