Question

Compare the effects produced by Marlowe and Raleigh's use of alliteration

Answer 1

Answer:

Marlowe uses repeating sounds to make a connection between the words that are central to the meaning of this passage (what the speaker invites the listener to do: “live” and “love” and what the speaker promises the listener in return: “pleasures” and “prove”). The repetition of sounds draws attention to these words and phrases, emphasizing their importance as central ideas in the stanza.  

Raleigh draws upon and transforms Marlowe’s poem. Raleigh’s poem is a refusal to the invitation, but Williams’s poem is like the opposite of Marlowe’s

entire argument, that the central belief that frames Marlowe’s poem is completely wrong.