romeo

• ' The all seeing sun, Ne'er saw her match since the world first begun'

  • Personification- romeo uses celestial imagery throughout to describe both Rosaline and Juliet, it was common to believe in fate
  • hyperbole- emphasises his certainty for his love for Rosaline, ironic
  • AO3- shakespear sets romeo up as the petrachen lover, (petrach was a 14th century poet who wrote sonnets consumed with his obsessive one sided love for a lady)
• 'With loves light wings did I o'erperch these walls.'

  • walls- noun, represents the barriers to their relationship
  • wings- angelic imagerey, freedom from his earlier melancholy state in the play, also links to angels and heavan which is ironic given his fate
  • AO3- cupid, the roman god of love is often depicted as a winged infant with a bow and arrow, here romeo believes he has not only been hit with cupids arrow but has become the god of love himself
• 'O, i am fortunes fool'

  • exclamation- overused by romep throughout the play showing his melodramatic and emotional tendancies
  • fortune- abstract noun, serves to remind the audience that this is his fate, or could be interpreted as romeo not taking the blame for his actions
  • AO3- fate and superstition was heavily believed in in elizabethen times, it was a common belief that the stars and god had predetermined your path
• 'Come, unsavoury guide/ Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark'

  • personification of the poison he is taking, as though it is leading him to death, implying he is being lead to death by a force other than himself
  • nautical imagery- he cannot survive without juliet, like a small boat in a violent sea
  • Come- imperative, shows his determination to end his life, desperation?
  • AO3- Romeo would have been catholic and suicide in catholisism is viewed as a mortal sin, it also would have been disrespectfull to an Elizabethan audience