William Shakespeare is prominently known as one of the greatest writers to have ever lived and is the master of figurative language. This ingenuity of Shakespeare can be exhibited through his many plays and one notably and perfectly exampled Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare truly transpires lines in iambic pentameter to poetic verses with rich personification, meaning and theme, and point of speech. This can all be seen in act 5 scene 3, in which Romeo says, “In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. / Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris! / What said my man, when my bestossed soul / Did not attend him as we rode? I think / He told me Paris would have […] / the dashing rocks the sea-sick weary bark! Here’s to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! …show more content…
We can see this through Romeo’s lines, “Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. […] / That unsubstantial death is amorous” (92-103). This speech shows Romeo personifying death, an anomaly human does not familiarize as living. Death cannot suck anything, death cannot hold or bare a flag, and death cannot show amorous desires (showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire). This personification indicates how Romeo views things, dramatically. Giving “death” human qualities gives it importance and meaning, and therefore adding to the fact Romeo thinks of everything dramatically; however, Shakespeare uses this personification to give death a meaning in the overall play and making it a huge impact on both the storyline and the speech. This can be seen through the whole play as both Romeo and Juliet dream about their deadly fate, and the many characters deaths, which truly display how important of a presence death is. This shows how death is a meaningful character in an invisible part in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo’s belief that death is a living