
Romeo and Juliet
The Bookening
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What Satisfaction Can You Have Tonight?
There's some pretty telling stuff in the balcony scene. Both have this elaborate quasi religious metaphor that they keep coming back to. A lot of the language that he uses is the same thing you see in Shakespeare's sonnets, which is really interesting. Like the sort of worship of the beloved and his idolization of the beloved.
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