Sir Walter Raleigh's poem was a direct response to Christopher Marlowe's poem in which the speaker is the young woman to whom Marlowe's shepherd offers his proposal. In an original pastoral poem (life in the country) consisting of 24 lines in 6 stanzas and written in couplets (pairs of rhyming lines), write a response to Raleigh's poem in which the young shepherd responds to the young woman's rejection and her reasoning.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”