Help fast please.
ROMEO
(taking JULIET’s hand) If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
*Kisses her*
Close Reading Questions
1. Romeo and Juliet’s first words to each other make up a sonnet. Why is a
sonnet an appropriate poetic form with which to bring the two lovers
together?
2.
A. To what does Romeo compare his lips?
B. Is that comparison a simile or a metaphor?
C. How does Romeo further his comparison in the rest of the sonnet?
3. What is Juliet’s response to Romeo? Is she receptive to his declaration of
love?
4. Does Juliet want Romeo to kiss her? Explain your answer
