ENGL7101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lightning
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Light and dark, light representing the lovers as they see one another in the darkness of their troubles; darkness also as the shroud of secrecy; also light as lightning and therefore transitory and easily burnt out. / it is the east, and juliet is the sun" "the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, / as daylight doth a lamp" "it is too rash, too unadivsed, too sudden; / too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / ere one can say "it lightens"" "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 night/and pay no worship to the garish sun" "more light and light; more dark and dark our woes!" "for here lies juliet, and her beauty makes / this vault a feasting presence full of light" "a glooming peace this morning with it brings.
