ROMEO:
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!
Romeo seems to talk a lot about body parts, movement and sound. He talks about them almost as if his body is dying bit by bit. An example is the first line, “From world-wearied flesh. Eyes,look your last!”. Another example is “Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you”. I think this means that his arms and lips shall embrace Juliet for the last time.Another metaphor is the part where he is talking about the “pilot”. A pilot is a little ship that generally guides bigger ships safely around the harbour. He talks about the pilot as if it is guiding him and he has had enough of it as this is the part in the play where he kills himself. The bit where he says “bark” is him describing another type of ship. He is metaphorically saying that he is a ship and he’s being guided by a “pilot” boat.
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