Poem Analysis: Juliet's 'Heat Of Life'

In this poem, Juliet is taking a risk into taking this potion the friar gave her but she is willing to do anything to not marry Parris and be with the one she truly loves, Romeo.

Juliet is about to drink a potion that will make it seem like she is dead but it just puts her to sleep. But as she begins to take the potion she starts to get worried that something may go wrong. She then goes to call the nurse back in to ask for help but quickly realizes she must go through this alone. She starts to consider all the things that could go wrong like what if it does not work, she will then have to result to suicide with a knife, what if this whole thing is a set up by the friar to kill her, or what if she is put inside of a tomb before Romeo comes to

Also In line 3 there is also a hyperbole, Juliet is exaggerating that she has, saying that her fear is freezing her blood which is an exaggeration because fear cannot freeze up your blood. In line 20 personification is used, Juliet is saying the vault that she will be taken to is a mouth that bears foul smells. In line 29 Juliet is imagining her bloody cousin lying there in his rotting corpse which is an example of imagery. In line 34 Juliet is comparing the screams in the vault to mandrakes which are Mediterranean plants used for magic and medicine and they are allegdely shrieking as they are pulled out of the ground, which is an example of a simile because they compared these two things not using like. In line 37 she uses personification with the line “hideous fears” which a fear cannot be hideous. In line 40 Juliet is comparing the kinsman’s bone aka her ancestor’s bones located in the vault, to a club so to say a gold club, saying she might have to beat her brain with from going insane. In line 41 she calls her brain desperate which is a human descriptive word which would make that line personification.

I decided to choose the poem because, ever since reading Romeo and Juliet in the 9th grade, I have been in love with the story. The specific scene I choose is a very powerful one to me. Juliet is showing how deeply she loves Romeo and showing that she would do anything and take any risk just so that she can be with him and no one else. Which illustrates the “stupid” young love concept that I am just a complete sucker