Comparing Romeo And Juliet

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Love is a feeling of an attachment to someone, but how can someone know that they are in love and how does it change? Sometimes in a person’s life they will find love and think that it is the best feeling in the world but not for some people. Love is not a easy thing for everyone, some people have to go through ups in downs just to get the love that they deserve. Others have it easy and don’t have problems with love and how they love their partners . The stories and poems would explain what love is, how it changes us, and how difficult it can be in someone’s life.

In the first poem “To my dear and loving husband” is about a wife expresses how she feels and how much she loves her husband. In the poem it states “ I prize thy love more than …show more content…

Despite the feud that the family has Romeo and Juliet love each other but the both sides of the families are holding them back because of a family name. In the poem it states that “ What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.” This piece of evidence shows you that Juliet doesn’t care what Romeo’s name is , it would still have a sweet smelling scent. Then, in the poem it states “Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptiz’d. Henceforth I never will be Romeo.” In this piece of evidence Romeo is saying that Juliet can just call him her lover and he will take a new name , for now on he will not Romeo . Next, in the poem it says “ With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls. For stony limits cannot hold love out . And what love can do that dares love attempt. Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” This piece of evidence shows you that Romeo is telling Juliet that nothing can keep him away from Juliet not even the kinsmen or the walls that she is in. Romeo is in love with Juliet and nothing can stop him from getting to Juliet. This poem shows what love is and how it changes someone, it is showing that Romeo and Juliet do not care about what everyone else thinks and that they just want to be together. It changes them because the are making sacrifices for each

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