romeo

• Juliet is the sun
• Oh I am fortunes fool
• It is east and Juliet is the sun!


  nobody can own the sun

  Romeo thinks very highly of Juliet

  metaphor - sun gives life - Juliet gives him life
• love devouring death do what he dare


  tempts fate

  foreboding language

  personification

  death is the only thing that can take their long away
• Juliet is a dove


  metaphor

  dove - symbol of hope, generosity

  links to Christianity - innocence
• O she doth teaches the torches to burn bright'


  'b' plosive alliteration replicates Romeo's heart beat quickening when he see's Juliet implying he is in love

  'teaches' - Juliet shows light how to be

  'torches' - light, purity, life, radiant- Juliet is pure, she is full of life and she spreads her purity and happiness to everyone around her
• 'she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich Jewel in an Ethop's ear'


  metaphor - 'She hangs upon the cheek of night' - she is like a star - otherworldly,

  simile - 'as a rich Jewel in an Ethops ear'

  'Ethops' - Ethiopian (exotic) -Jewel implies she is too precious and beautiful and rare
• Did my heart love till now?


  rhetorical question

  Romeo feels he is incomplete without Juliet

  fickle love - he was moping around over Rosaline and now he is love with Juliet (he just met her)
• Can I go forward when my heart is here?


  rhetorical question, metaphor

  'Heart' - Juliet (metaphorically) - he is in love, she is the thing that gives him life - he can't live without her

  'forward' - away, move on in his life - he can't progress in life as he has met Juliet

  'my' - pronoun - belongs to him
• 'Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon'


  'Arise' - verb - wake, give life, light

  'kill' - violent, foreshadows he killing herself after his death

  'envious' - jealous , the moon is jealous of her looks
• they speak in sonnet form when the first meet to show how they are meant to be with each other - shows love at first sight
• 'snowy dove, trooping with crows'


  'dove' - generosity, purity, innocence, beautiful - Religious

  'trooping' - walking amongst

  'crows' - death, mourning, mischief - all the other women are hideous compared to Juliet

  Rosaline = crow (fickle love)