Society gets emotionally attached too quickly causing them to hurt themselves. In the poem "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard" by Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the main themes would be that people don't realize that love is transient. It does not matter if the love is young or old it is bound to change over time. Raleigh is expressing that sometimes people chose to be blindsided so they don’t have to face reality and its never ending consequence's.
Everything has an ending. No one has the power to make time stop or make something eternal. The use of symbolism helps further explain how although people may want things to go a certain way, most likley than not they will go against their odds. Those who have the idealisms that love is eternal are choosing to not see the truth of…show more content… People usually like to try to convince others into thinking the same way they do even though they might be wrong most likely then not they don’t care. "Honey Tounge" (Raleigh 11). The nymph calls out the Shepard and basically a sweet talker, he only trying to convince her so everything he's saying about being "in love" with her has no meaning behind it. Society does this thing were they don’t think about the after math of things. People are so passive sometimes that they don’t think through things. The Shepard is so passive that he only thinks about the now so he doesn’t realize what he is telling the Nymph now might no mean anything later. "In fancy's spring, but sorrows fall" (Raleigh 12), The nymph is obviously the rational one in this "relationship" she has with the Shepard. She actually grasps the situation going on, she knows what someone says doesn’t always follow through they way they want it to.The Nymph will never fall for his words. Raleigh does a great job in developing the idea that people should take in consideration how their decisions may reflect in their present and
