Romeo and Juliet 2 3 Friar Lawrences grayeyed

Romeo and Juliet 2. 3 Friar Lawrence’s “gray-eyed morn” monologue

“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night”

Personification • “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” (2. 3. 1)

“Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light”

“Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light”

Metaphor • “check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light” (2. 3. 2)

Simile • “And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels” (2. 3. 3)

Allusion • “From forth day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels” (2. 3. 4) – In Greek and Roman mythology, Titan is the sun god, or the personification of the sun.

“And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels”

Reversed Word • “I must upfill this osier cage of ours” (2. 3. 7) – We normally say “fill up. ”

Reversed Thought • “The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb” (2. 3. 9 -10) – Birth, death / death, birth

Reversed Sentence Construction • “And from her womb children of divers kind / We sucking on her natural bosom find” (2. 3. 11 -12) – We normally say, “We find children of divers kind from her womb sucking on her natural bosom” (i. e. , we find many of her children, all different, breastfeeding from her).