rashness, passion, agency

• high conceit of such a bride'


  error of judgement, lorenzo realises isabella is above him in society but still pursues her
• all close they met again, before the dusk', 'all close they met, all eves'


  agents of their own suffering, rash decision to meet in a place where they're clearly visible
• the servant of their trade designs, should in their sister's love be blithe and glad'


  lovers blindness- fail to realise they've been caught, avaricious nature + hubris of brothers,
• to coax her by degrees to some high noble and his olive trees'


  brothers have promised her to another, rashness of isabella of ignoring duty
• they could not in the self-same mansion dell... they could not sit at meals but feel'


  love-sick yearning, passion as fatal flaw as they know they can never truly be together
• isabella- 'untouch'd cheek fell sick within the rose's just domain'

  lorenzo- 'heart beat awfully against his side'


  before they come together, love-sickness, passionate intensity causes them physical pain when apart
• passion both meek and wild'


  unsettling contraries of it conveys sense of ominous events, clouds ability to make sensible judgements
• lorenzo, courteously as he was wont bow'd a fair greeting to these serpents' whine'


  lorenzo= weak to others will, hubris and blindness to threat of brothers
• when so fain i am to stifle all the heavy sorrow of a poor three hours' absence'

  'goodbye! i'll soon be back'


  dramatic irony, full of passion for her w/ overarching sense of dread
• shed one tear upon my heather bloom'


  tragic reversal, isabella's passionate intensity will be her downfall
• she had devised how she might secret to the forest hie'


  finally has some agency due to her passion, stirred from passivity
• what feverous hectic flame burns in thee child?'


  old lady asks, sense of danger associated w/ love and passion, heat opposes the freezing of winter
• she began to dig more fervently than misers can'


  overtaken by passion and rashness as she gets closer to lorenzo's dead body
• calm'd its wild hair with a golden comb'


  tends to his head, motherly imagery, agency- driven to be reunited
• and she forgot the stars', 'and she forgot the blue


  passionate intensity directed at tending of pot sustains her but also causes her to fall into living purgatory, obsession