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Romeo and Juliet 2.3

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”.

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Romeo and Juliet 2.3

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  1. Romeo and Juliet 2.3 Friar Lawrence’s “gray-eyed morn” monologue

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

  3. Personification • “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” (2.3.1)

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

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

  6. Metaphor • “check’ringthe eastern clouds with streaks of light” (2.3.2)

  7. Simile • “And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels”(2.3.3)

  8. 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.

  9. “And flecked darkness like a drunkard reelsFrom forth day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels”

  10. Reversed Word • “I must upfillthis osier cage of ours” (2.3.7) • We normally say “fill up.”

  11. 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

  12. 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).

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