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Romeo begins the play in love with Rosaline, but his language in these opening scenes shows us that his first love is less mature than the love he will develop for Juliet. This couplet combines two ideas that were already clichés in Shakespeare’s day: “love is blind” and “love will find a way.”
Early in the play, as he moans about his unrequited love for Rosaline, Romeo uses a simile to compare love to a smoke that arises from the sighs of lovers, perhaps suggesting that it is simultaneously beautiful, potentially suffocating, and difficult to hold onto. A man, young lady—lady, such a man.
Once again, romantic love seems to be elevated to a semi-divine status in Romeo & Juliet that can lead people to a greater appreciation of the divine mysteries. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink. Romeo (Act 1, Scene 4) In this quote from Act I of Romeo & Juliet, Romeo complains that he’s still lovesick over his unrequited love for ...
Romeo forgets all about his "love" for Rosaline the exactly second he sees Juliet, which makes us think that he was never really in love with Rosaline to begin with. But does this also mean that Romeo's desire for Juliet is nothing more than meaningless infatuation?
1) light imagery - Juliet can illuminate Romeo's life even in death, Juliet is light and transforms death into something light. 2) even at Juliet's tomb, Romeo continues to use admiring courtly love imagery - the death of love has caused him to fall into old habits - love transformed him.
In Romeo and Juliet, what does "If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down" mean? Quick answer: Mercutio says this to Romeo after Romeo...
Under love's heavy burden do I sink. Mercutio. And, to sink in it, should you burden love; Too great oppression for a tender thing. 520; Romeo. Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. Mercutio. If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
