Renaissance Poems

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I'm reading Renaissance Poems in my English IV class, and I realized that the response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", Raleigh's "The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd", was pretty tsundere.

I mean, from what I gather, Marlowe's poem is from the view of a shepherd who tells his love, "Come with me and be my love, and we'll have all the joy in the world. I'll have you dance and sing, if you like; we can be free. I'll make you beds of roses and crowns of flowers and dresses of all sorts of plants (basically, an entire outfit of flowers), and you will enjoy it all if you come to love me." It was sort of a lovey, sweet letter that I felt meant, "I would give anything to have you be with me and to see you happy."

Then, Raleigh's poem was like, "Um, all of those flowers are gonna die, and we can't always sit by the river and listen to birds sing 'cause Winter comes around, and the birds are gone, and the river is frozen. The dresses and stuff you would make me would wilt, and there would be no use for them anymore. I don't want to love you for all of these materialistic fantasies, anyways. But.. if you would love me forever, despite our age and differences, I might... I might love you in return."

So, uh, when I think of a crazily optimistic poem that's all romantic and sweet with a response poem that's kinda pessimistic but ends on a note of hope and possibly future, guess what that reminds me of?

Can you guess?

If your guess was Matt and Allen, you're more than correct!

Now guess what I want to do but can't 'cause I need to get back to working on English IV?

I WANNA DRAW MY BABIES IN THESE POEMS.

                     ~Fangirling Neko Cho-san
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Draw them as soon as you finish!