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Like Romeo, Juliet experiences love as a kind of freedom: her love is “boundless” and “infinite.”. Her experience of love is more openly erotic than Romeo’s: her imagery has sexual undertones. Juliet is always more in touch with the practicalities of love—sex and marriage—than Romeo, who is less realistic.
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The play’s opening lines tell us that Romeo and Juliet will...
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"For stony limits cannot hold love out" Who says it, when is it said and what does it say about love and relationships? Romeo says this line in Act 2 Scene 2 in which he declares that his love for Juliet cannot be stopped by anything through the use of personification.
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1. Romeo is not finding love very easy. He uses three metaphors to explain the heartbreaks it causes. He compares it to a smoke made up of lovers’ sighs, a fire burning in the eyes of lovers, and when twarted a sea filled with lovers’ tears.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of history's most famous love stories. But how do the play's love quotes hold up in the current day?
*Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears.
What are three significant quotes about romantic love in Romeo and Juliet? The most famous quotations about love come from Act I, scene 5, when Romeo and Juliet first meet. Romeo is...
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Where Romeo draws on the conventional imagery of Elizabethan love poetry, Juliet's language in these lines is original and striking, which reflects her inexperience, and makes her seem very sincere. Quotes from romeo and juliet that link to love Learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free.