Celestial Imagery

Quote 1 (3:2:23-27)

"Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,/Take him and cut him out in little stars,/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/That all the world will be in love with the night/And pay no worship to the garish sun"

Meaning of Imagery

Shakespeare, is using the celestial imagery in this quote to describe their love, particularly the impossibility of it.

Meaning of Imagery

Shakespeare uses this kind of imagery to show Romeo's and Juliet's love and their kind of love. He also uses celestial imagery to characterizes Romeo as dreamer. In addition to the previous imagery meaning, when Juliet uses celestial imagery it shows how she is becoming more like Romeo and he's impulsiveness.

Meaning of Quote

Figurative Language

• Metaphor
• Juliet is the sun
• Moon refers Diana.
• chasity and moon

• Great Chain of Being
• sun is the highest form
• if the reader thinks of Diana as an angelic being, Juliet would be breaking the great chain of being by overthrowing her (sun is lower than the moon)
• Romeo's Love
• The sun is the source of life on earth. So Juliet would be Romeo's reason of living.
• Diana is the goddess of chasity. When he is saying "kill the envious moon", he is saying "give up your virginity"
• East instead of the West
• the sun rises in the west and sets in the east
• image of death

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Meaning of Quote

• Romeo is the night and Juliet is the sun.
• The sun can never be with the night.
• Talk about being together always.
• Must be together alive or together in death.

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Figurative Language

• Foreshadowing
• Death of Romeo and Juliet. "when I die"
• Hyperbole
• "take him and cut him out in little stars"
• Metaphor
• night=Rome, sun=Juliet

Celestial Imagery

Quote 2 (2:2:2-6)

Meaning of Quote

• "A glooming peace this morning with it brings"
• Romeo was compared to the night. The night has left = Romeo has died
• "The sun for his sorrow will not raise his head"
• The sun will not shine = Juliet is dead
• The sun will not shine because it is too sad. It is a "word" parallel to Juliet killing herself because her depression of Romeo's death.
• These two lines together show how Romeo and Juliet died together.
• "glooming peace this morning"
• The word peace shows that it is the resolution the conflict has been resolved, Romeo and Juliet are together. And the Great Chain of Being is restored.

Meaning of Imagery

Shakespeare uses this imagery to bring up the images of Romeo and Juliet to show their own personal conflict, of wanting to be together, is resolved. The readers also known that this is the resolution because the Great Chain of Being is restored.

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Figurative Language

• Rhymed Verse (the whole line)
• This is the denouement.
• The Prince is restoring the Great Chain of Being.

*Prince is not using sun to refer to Juliet.

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/It is the East, and Juilet is the sun./Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/Who is already sick and pale with grief/That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she".

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Quote (5:3:316-317)

Theme

"A glooming peace this morning with it brings./The sun for sorrow will not show his head".

Celestial Imagery supports the theme of:

Consuming love can only end in heartbreak and tragedy

Consuming Love...

• "It is the East and Juliet is the sun"

Can Only End In Heartbreak...

"That all the world will be in love with the night/And pay no worship to the garish sun".

And Tragedy...

"A glooming peace this morning with it brings./The sun for sorrow will not show his head".

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