Romeo as a Lover Flashcards
Feather of lead, bright smoke…
Cold fire, sick health
Oxymorons
Represent confusion
Cliche and presents an artificial love as the phrases seem as though he is copying poets and authors
Attempting to recreate feelings of being in love without actually being in love
Seems as though he is in the idea of being in love and is not actually in love
For I ne’er saw true…
A snowy white…
In that sparing…
Beauty til this night
Passion causes him to quickly forget about Rosaline and focus on Juliet
He is very quickly to believe that he is in love which makes it difficult at first to believe if he really is in love with Juliet
Dove trooping with crows
Makes huge waste
Romeo at first almost criticizes Rosaline for being chaste all of her life, which is purity. However, when he sees Juliet she is seen as a pure, which seems to show that Romeo
Be not her maid…As none but…
It is too rash, too…
Fools do wear it
Romeo is being rather selfish as he is more concerned about his desires than what Juliet wants or thinks is best.
Unadvis’d, too sudden
Juliet expresses misgivings
