Question

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ROMEO


(taking JULIET’s hand) If I profane with my unworthiest hand


This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:


My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand


To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.


JULIET


Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,


Which mannerly devotion shows in this,


For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,


And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.


ROMEO


Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?


JULIET


Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.


ROMEO


O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.


They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.


JULIET


Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.


ROMEO


Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.


*Kisses her*


Close Reading Questions



1. Romeo and Juliet’s first words to each other make up a sonnet. Why is a


sonnet an appropriate poetic form with which to bring the two lovers


together?


2.


A. To what does Romeo compare his lips?


B. Is that comparison a simile or a metaphor?


C. How does Romeo further his comparison in the rest of the sonnet?


3. What is Juliet’s response to Romeo? Is she receptive to his declaration of


love?



4. Does Juliet want Romeo to kiss her? Explain your answer

Answer 1

1. a sonnet is an effective way for romeo and juliet to speak because it shows hat their love for eachother and the conflict that surrounds them. A sonnet is a poem that usually expresses love, and romeo and juliet share a sonnet when they forst meet, using religious imagery to suggest that their love is sacred.

2. a) Romeo compares his lips to pilgrams

b) Its is a metaphor

c) Romeo compares Juliet to a 'holy shrine'. The use of 'holy shrine' illustrates that Romeos love for juliet has elevated, but also the religious metaphor and the purity of the sonnet shows that their love is sacred

3. Romeo requests that juliet declares her love for him and Juliet simply replies that she has already done so. This shows how loving and passionate she is, as she has given her love, and heart, to Romeo

4. Romeo tries to convince Juliet to kiss him, since it is only through her kiss that he might be absolved. Juliet agrees to remain still as Romeo kisses her. Thus, in the terms of their conversation, she takes his sin from him. Juliet then makes the logical leap that if she has taken Romeo’s sin from him, his sin must now reside in her lips, and so they must kiss again.

(hope this helps)