romeo and juliet

we be in choler,we’'ll draw

swords mentioned, male violece immediately introduced in play, greek black slip vase where men are presented as black as they are more violent, patriarchy

a dog of the house of montague moves me AND fetch me my rapier boy

pavlovian response to montagues

neighbour stained steel

verona is ruined by family fued, stained with blood

fiery tybalt

devil imagery, angry person

locks fair daylight out

darkened light imagery when romeo is not with juliet

bud bit with an envious worm

likens juliet to a flower that will never grow, foreshadows juliets death

sad hours seem long

foreshadows that most of this play will be in sorrow, romeos anguish when not with juliet nothing in excess

o brawling love o loving hate

oxymoron foreshadows conflict between love and violence in play

earth hath swallow’d all my hopes

grave hungry for bodies, foreshadows multiple deaths will follow,

earth- treading stars

star-cross’d lovers, death and fate

what lamb what ladybird

blood colour, sacrficial lamb, pure white colour of innocence to red foreshadows she will lose virginity

i had laid wormwood to my dug

coffin imagery, anticipates poison that juliet and romeo will take, relates to death mark’d as it was like she was sucking death, bad omen

under love’s heavy burden

contrast to “love’s light wings”

She is the fairies’ midwife

it is a paradox midwife brings life, but Queen Mab delivers false dreams foreshadows romeos love for juliet clashing with reality of family fued, leading to tragedy

maids lie on their backs/ that presses them

implies loss of innocence for juliet when she has sex, presses them is violent and has dark undertone meaning in future marriage will lead to suffering

inconstant than the wind

love, like the wind, can be unpredictable but also destructive

some consequence yet hanging in the stars

fate is against him, their love is doomed

He that hath the steerage of my course

fate controls him, ship metaphor

o she doth teach the torches to brun bright

fiery touch metaphor for heat of sexual excitement, plosive sounds bring, escalation of light imagery, simplex sigillum veri- purity of r and js love (contrats to feud and violence)

fetch me my rapier boy

pavlovian response

seeming sweet convert to bitt’rest gall

duality of love as joyful ajd tragic,

my lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand

elevates love for juliet to holy level, purity of love, ready stand shows instant attraction and desire impulsiveness of their love nothing in excess delphic maxim, pilgrims navigate obstacles on their way to holy place and so will r and j (pilgrims is metaphor for their love)

good pilgrim

mirrors romeos words,empowers juliet as she reverses the saint and pilgrim metaphor showing her as a masculine character which opposes gener expectations of a pasove women in elizabethan era, make a complete sonnet so love is unifed and perfect making the ending that more tragic, plato’s symposium where connection between two lovers reflects Aristophanes' idea of love as the search for one's "other half," where both Romeo and Juliet feel complete and whole when they are together, despite the tragic circumstances that ultimately separate them

palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss

their kiss, is the answer to a prayer, symbolically portrays their love as sacred, transcending the social constraints, hubris reveals their hamartia. so they are cursed, ironic as saints die gruesome deaths (matyrs)

my grave is like to be my wedding bed

sex/love and death and inseperable, fate and foreshdawoing of juleits fate , love transcends death, ironic

young affection gapes to be his heir

heir means something u cannot escape like his fate, this choral sonnet is one of death,

time means to meet…. extreme sweet

delphic maxims, nothing in excess, time is running out, unreakable shackles of fate,

it is the east and juliet is the sun

light essential to life just like juliet is essential to romeos, light imagery escalation, courtly love where juliet is also elevated which foreshdaows her tragic fall and decent into tragedy, also breaks societal norms as she has the power here

two of the fairest stars in all the heaven

foreshadows romeo and juliet will die soon, star crossed lovers

daylight doth a lamp

light imagery increases and so does growing love

o romeo romeo wherefore art thou romeo

laments on family feud, tries to escape this but leads to death, frustrations with fate and society

love’s light wings

believes love transcends all, myth of icarus flying too close to sun whihc foreshadows his tragic fall, death imagery

god of my idolatry

not capitalised g in god, shows hubris, revere the scared, nothing in excess, sinful and their punishment is their fate

my bounty as boundless as the sea

mirrors romeos use of ship metaphors, salty water foreshadows tears, sea is destructive just like their uncontrolled relationship will be,

we met, we woo’d and made exchange of vows

monsyllabic, shows how quick it happened, heightens sense of doom and urgency, aristophnes on how pace makes a play, nothing in excess

they stumble that run fast

FL warning on fate being an obstacle to their love

love-devouring Death

love and death are intertwined, romeo dares death to do its worst tragic irony, death capatilised which shows emphasis like he is inviting death, the scene this is in is very short to convey short romanve and short marriage that will follow

violent delights have violent ends

FL warns, nothing in excess, ironic foreshdaowing

a plague a’both houses

volta, curse that causes tragic end of r and j, contaguous environment of the family feud’s hatred

i am fortune’s fool

impulsive actions controlled by fate, fate vs freewill

“will” and “kill”

this rhyming couplet takes us back to life and strife which was sperated by two lines but this rhyming couplet is one line after another suggesting violence is brought closer and death

can heaven be so envious

juliet angry at their love, without each other they are in hell, idolatry

o serpent heart

metaphor with deceit, christian serpent as devil, inner conflict, oxymoron, love and violence interwtined

all slain, all dead

tybaltb is dead but romeo who is everything to her is being banished, everythig menaingfu in her life is destoryed, nothing in excess, ironic as will be seperated by death also ,

heaven is here / where juliet lives

libe break is their speration from each other, idoltary, solipsitic behaviour where they think world revolves around them

thy tears are womanish

depicts patrirahcla standards, presnets romeo and feminine, FL to romeo

you be mine i give you to my friend

pater familias head of household and has power, phillip larkin they fuck you up your mum and dad they may not mean to but they do, owns juliet, menander (greek writer meaning greek tragedy) “i give you this woman for the ploughing of legitimate children”, treated as object

night’s candles are burnt out

negative light imagery as this is a sad moment where r and j part ways, inverse of balcony scene, life and time is running out (like light), occurs at dawn which is red colur in sky indictaes blood

vaulty heaven

play ends in grave vault, heaven wants them dead as will seal their fate as star cross’d lovers,

thou look’st pale

pale imagery like death, romeo will be this, negative light imagery

my fingers itch

body trembling to hit juliet, patriarchal ownership and power of pater familias

past hope, past cure past help

trinity of depsiar and woe, nothing in excess

i long to die

like lucretia ( character explored in many greek tragedies e.g medea) juloet will uphold her honour of institution of marriage, her bond with romeo cannot be broken and she is willing to die

roses in thy lips and cheeks will fade

will look dead, foreshdaows her death, fading flower represents power of fate which strips beauty and innocence, love cannot escape death

faint cold fear thrills

fricative alliteration for fear contrats with inner turmoil and her emotional conflict

romeo romeo romeo

trinity, idolatry, conjuring romeo before she takes the potion, image of witchcraft, going mad, nothing in excess

Death lain with thy wife

death capitialised, is invited and more prominnet in play, death has slept with juliet

i defy you stars

does not accept juliets “death”, powerlessness of romeo, ironic as if he has done nothing they would be together, their love is controlled by fate

fatal cannon’s womb

pxympron of death and life imagery, death is the only doorway to romeos life which is juliet, cannon suggest haste of actions, he is catapulting into impulsive decsions

unfirm with digging up of graves

FL trips while trying to get to juliet, fates obstacles placed to guarantee a doomed inescapable fate for r and j

hungry churchyard

hungry for bodues, foreshdaows death

sour misfortune’s book

contrats with you kiss by th’ book, complimetary book imagery tragic reversal to that of sorrow, book of destiny and fate written down,

seal with a righteous kiss

ring struc, starts with kiss ends with kiss, end of their love story

shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

handcuffs, prison, inescapable fate, vlimax of star imagery, 3rd sonnet has fate trapping them as a reuslt of trinity and hubris and idolatry,

rocks thy seasick weary bank

climax of ship metaphors, end of love and life, helplessness against indesrtuctible and uncontrollable tides of fate, likening his decision to die to a sailor deliberately steering his ship into destruction. It’s a powerful image of self-destruction

a greater power than we can contradict/ hath thwarted our intents

momemt of anagnorisis for juliet as she discovers truth, momemt of tragic revelation, aristotle’s key emotions in a tragedy are fear and pity, we feel pity

o happy dagger

phallic imagery, body as the sheath, personification, la petite mort death likened to orgasm, sex and death intertwined,

heaven finds means to kill your joys with love

due to family fued, heaves allowed this, fate was caused ue to you (FL to the families), form in a borken sonnet which represntes broken families, hearts and missing children (missing quatrains)

“woe” and “ juliet and her romeo”

ring structure, brings u back to prologue, rhyming couplet, possessive pronoun on romeo, reversal in patriarchal norm, r and j united in grave, capulet and montague united in friendhsip

Civil blood makes civil hands unclean

violence, irony as they are not civil

In fair verona -

• italy a place famous for love and passion 

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life-

euphemsim of suicide, sex and death, fate into misery. A constellation of malign star imagery hangs over the two lovers. In oedipus the king , he is “born to misery” like romeo and juliet which is another greek tragedy

“Strife” and “life”

 strong rhyme scheme = inescapable fate

Death mark’d love

fault in their stars leads to many deaths

Parents’ rage

opposites as children love but parents hate, control of parents over children