Light and Dark Flashcards
She doth teach the torches
It seems she hangs upon…
To burn bright
The cheek of night
Sets up imagery of dark and light which reflects potential for a fatal outcome
Night = consumes light
A snowy dove…
Trooping with crows
The brightness of Juliet is made brighter now that she’s surrounded by darkness but she stands out
Arise fair sun…
Who is already…
That thou her maid art…
And kill the envious moon
Sick and pale with grief
More fair than she
She’s a maid because she’s chaste
Juliet is warm and sunny, opposite to pale and is not sick
Romeo is possibly using the moon to represent Rosaline - resentment still? Expressing how Juliet is better than her?
Moon comes and goes so doesn’t want to represent Juliet as the moon. Sun instead because it’s what makes the moon be seen.
The grey-eyed morn smiles…
On the frowning night
Night is full of uncertainty, passion, danger
Day brings relentless realities
You lover/ Must climb…
Shall hear the burden…
Climb a bird's nest soon at night Soon at night Sexual connotations Nurse believes night is for sex Night brings darkness and allows acts of love to be performed which is backed up by "love-performing night"
More light and light;…
More dark and dark our woes
Irony
Night favours them but cannot last forever
What envious streaks…
Do lace the severing clouds
Beautiful yet ominous
Even the environment and nature indicates the end of their happiness and it’s out of their control
