As the discussion leader for this, I read and analyzed the two readings.

This is for “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”.

Lanyer seemed to put the blame on men. Eve ate the forbidden fruit and Adam did as well.

But surely Adam cannot be excused;

Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame;

While reading this, I saw the rhyme scheme was a, b, a, b, a, b, c, c.

This is for Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Paradise Lost was speaking about the falling of humanity and how sin came to be. It also went on about Adam and Eve, the first biblical characters and how the serpent tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. These two readings have strong Biblical references.

Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” indicates how he want his love to be with him and enjoy the natural setting.

Maybe something like this?

This area seems surreal like how Marlowe describes his setting in the poem.

In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, he implies the opposite and that love doesn’t last forever. It changes just like how seasons change.

When I was thinking about love from these poems, I saw this quote on line

 This quote was really sweet. Maybe this is what the shepherd wants to give his lover?

Sonnet – a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee from Me” speaks about passion, anger, longing, and pain from women.

  Passion  Anger

“Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise

Twenty times better; but once in special,

In thin array, after a pleasant guise,”

– Sir Thomas Wyatt “They Flee from Me”

Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella speaks about the anatomy of love and its contradicting views: hope and despair, tenderness and bitterness, exultation and modesty, bodily desire and spiritual transcendence (Greenblatt, Abrams 975).