“Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;
Being but heavy, I will bear the light.” (1, 4, 11-12)
The emotional Romeo speaks these lines in Act One, Scene four, lines eleven through twelve. These type lines appear early and throughout the story when he was still “Heartbroken” about Rosaline he believes it is the end of his world of love. The modern English translation is, “Give me a torch. I don't want to dance. I feel sad, so let me be the one who carries the light.” These groups of lines are poetry and iambic pentameter, although it does not have a rhyme scheme. Nevertheless the main focus of these lines of poetry is the word light which Shakespeare uses in his plays regularly for various number of reasons.
In the Oxford English Dictionary,