...declares her love for him - even though his name is Montague. Romeo on seeing Juliet on the balcony But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! . . . her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think...

...following lines from Borneo and Juliet. Circle the letter of the speech that states the problem. a. ROMEO: But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. b. JULIET: Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Oh, be some other name. c. JULIET: Good night, good night....

...that stage. But listen: Juliet is up on the balcony and Romeo is beneath. He sees her and he says, "But soft! what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." He talks about the brightness of her cheek — that it would shame even the beauty of the stars. He...

...Such contrasts can give wonderful energy to a scene. When Romeo spies Juliet on the balcony, he cries, But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?...already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid are far more fair than she.10 Personification again, hyperbole, metaphor, but all of them deployed...

...How long it't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask? (i, v, 30-33) 7 ; * » 30-33 If) Romeo : But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?...already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, are far more fair than she. (II, ii, 2-6) 7 o (£-&> *^*' 2-6 ft) Juliet : O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore...

...own >k infatua128 tion. " 'What light through yonder window breaks?' " he recited from Shakespeare. " 'It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair...that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.' " It was obvious by the way the girl shook that she was more afraid of this demon than anything her...

...Love uses the same business. [ROMEO advances.] ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Bur soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It...envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief 5 That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal...

...to be very little difference between this love, and the emotion he pretended to feel for Rosaline: Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is...grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. This is the conventional language of love poetry: it was fashionable for dramatic lovers to speak in...

...it of a 'sense of the sacred', has also devoted a sensitive if inconclusive study. 5 Romeo begins : But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun. (2.2.2-3) If we follow this image through we find that Romeo associates or actually identifies Juliet...

...stylistically realised. I call examples like this visible metaphors. In Romeo and Juliet, the co-text is: But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. In the first line here, the whole question-sentence could be read purely literally. However, in the...