Love quotes to analyse for essay

Romeo and Juliet

ROMEO
Out of her favour, where I am in love.
Here's romeo is completely infatuated with Rosaline. When he's not
daydreaming aout Rosaline in his room, He's moping around in a grove of
!sycamore! trees, where those who are sic" amour #sic" with love$ tend to
hang out. %he thing is, Rosaline has asolutely no interest in Romeo, ut he
pursues her anyway. Maye he's not in love with Rosaline as he is osessed
with the idea of eing in love
ROMEO Well, in that hit you miss& she'll not e hit
With 'upid's arrow( she hath )ian's wit(
*nd, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,
+rom love's wea" childish ow she lives unharm'd.
,he will not stay the siege of loving terms,
-or ide the encounter of assailing eyes,
-or ope her lap to saint.seducing gold&
Romeo admits that Rosaline has vowed to remain !chaste! li"e !)iana,! the
goddess of virginity and hunting. In other words, Rosaline has sworn o/ oys
and se0, which means that Romeo has no chance of winning her heart.
What's interesting aout this passage is that Romeo sounds a whole lot li"e a
typical !1etrarchan lover.! 1etrarch, was a fourteenth.century Italian poet
whose sonnets were all the rage in Renaissance England. In fact,
,ha"espeare's own collection of ,onnets are, in part, inspired y 1etrarch's
love poetry, which was written aout !2aura,! a 3gure who was as
unavailale and unattainale as Romeo's current crush #Rosaline$. 1etrarchan
poetry happens to contain a lot of metaphors that e4uate the pursuit of love
with hunting and5or attle. In this passage, Romeo says that Rosaline is well
!arm'd! against the !siege! of his love and !'upid's arrow,! which is an
elaorate way to say that Rosaline is physically and emotionally
impenetrale.
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ROMEO
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
%his holy shrine, the gentle 3ne is this&
My lips, two lushing pilgrims, ready stand
%o smooth that rough touch with a tender "iss.
9:2IE%
;ood pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this(
+or saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
*nd palm to palm is holy palmers' "iss.
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too<
9:2IE%
*y, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do(
%hey pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
9:2IE%
,aints do not move, though grant for prayers' sa"e.
ROMEO
%hen move not, while my prayer's e/ect I ta"e.
=He "isses her.>
%hus from my lips, y yours, my sin is purged.
9:2IE%
%hen have my lips the sin that they have too".
ROMEO
,in from thy lips< O trespass sweetly urged?
;ive me my sin again.
9:2IE%
@ou "iss y the oo".
#A.B.C$
%his is one of the most famous passages in the entire play. When Romeo and
9uliet tal" for the 3rst time at the 'apulet all, Romeo touches 9uliet's hands
and lips. *ngling for a "iss, Romeo refers to his lips as a two !pilgrims! that
would worship at a holy !shrine! #that would e 9uliet's lips$. * pilgrim, is a
person on a religious pilgrimage to a holy place. 1ilgrims were also called
!palmers! ecause they often carried palm leaves on their Dourneys. In
response, 9uliet teasingly puns on the word !palmer! to suggest that touching
hands, !palm to palm,! is li"e "issing #so Romeo, presumaly, should e
content with touching her hands instead of "issing$. Eut Romeo refuses to e
shot down. Instead of wal"ing away, he uses 9uliet's handsFlips logic to argue
that "issing the lips of 9uliet would e Dust li"e praying, which involves placing
ones palms together. 9uliet seems playfully willing to go along with all this
and allows Romeo to "iss her. What's interesting is that, efore Romeo can
loc" lips for a second time, 9uliet says !you "iss y the oo",! which suggests
that all of Romeo's moves are a it scripted and clichG. ,o, 9uliet's clearly
smitten with Romeo ut she also recogniHes that Romeo isn't e0actly original.
*t the same time, however, the dialogue etween Romeo and 9uliet ta"es the
form of a sonnet #up to the point where they "iss$, which is incredily
romantic. ,o, while Romeo's moves are a it predictale, we can also
recogniHe that Romeo and 9uliet's romance has the potential to e anything
ut conventional.
9uliet is certain that she loves Romeo ut she's also a it cautious ecause
her love seems !too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.! ,o, while 9uliet is
clearly a very passionate girl, she's also pretty smart and realiHes that head.
over.heels passion can e dangerous.
Holy ,aint +rancis, what a change is here?
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
,o soon forsa"en< young men's love then lies
-ot truly in their hearts, ut in their eyes.
+riar 2aurence ma"es a convincing argument that Romeo's love for 9uliet
could e nothing more than a crush. 9ust days ago Romeo was crying his eyes
out over another woman, the unattainale Rosaline. -ow, the !salt water!
tears haven't even dried yet and he's tal"ing aout a new love interest. +riar
2aurence has good reason to e s"eptical of Romeo's newfound !love.! Eut, if
he's so s"eptical of the relationship, why does he agree to secretly marry the
young couple< Well, he tells us& !+or this alliance may so happy prove5 %o turn
your households' rancour to pure love!. +riar 2aurence is crossing his 3ngers
a union etween Romeo and 9uliet will force the feuding families to reconcile.
Eut good intentions aren't enough. His meddling may not e solely
responsile for the tragedy, ut it's at least partly responsile. *t the same
time, Romeo and 9uliet's love does eventually ring the two families together
Iut only after a doule suicide.
'*1:2E%
O rother Montague, give me thy hand&
%his is my daughter's Dointure, for no more
'an I demand.
*fter Romeo and 9uliet are found dead, Montague o/ers to erect a !statue! of
!pure gold! in 9uliet's honor and 'apulet promise to do the same for his dead
son.in.law, Romeo. *lthough the young lovers' deaths unite the warring
families and put an end to the feud #Dust as the 'horus promised ac" in the
3rst 1rologue$, the e/orts of the 'apulets and the Montagues are a day late
and a dollar short.