Sir Walter Raleigh's anti-pastoral poem, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, is about a woman rejecting the promises of a man. The speaker is being realistic about flowers fading, winter coming, feelings changing. She says "But could youth last, and love still breed, / Had joys no date, nor age no need, / Then these delights my mind might move / To live with thee and be they love" meaning that youth doesn't last forever and times people and people change, but if there was no such thing as aging and there was no end to joyful youth, then they could be together, but, since people change with age, the pair just can't be together. This poem is kind of like reality television, such as when on The Bachelor, Emily, whose first husband died in a plane accident, was chosen in the end to marry a man, but then things didn't work out and so she is now currently on The Bachelorette, trying to find love again.
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