I dreamt a dream tonight; where a divine angel appeared to me and gave me the gift of love. When I awoke from this impression, I discovered that the dream was reality and that the angel was the only daughter of the rich Capulet.
Ay me! Has my heart ever loved till now? I have never seen true beauty until this night. She has stolen my heart, that holy shrine, that dear saint, that Juliet. O, how she teaches the torches to burn bright! With a single glance I plunged into a fantasy, which removed my heavy soul of lead. I feel like a child on Christmas Eve. I’m anxious. But I’m warm and breathless and alive for her. An intense feeling is rising up from deep inside of me. My recent sad hours now seem a distant memory, of which I wish to forget. Rosaline. I have forgot that name, and that name's pain.
She is my sun, my love, my Juliet. My heart is hers, and hers is set on mine. But a Capulet; the only daughter of my families great enemy. This ancient grudge separates our houses and makes our love unclean. But love is love, and it knows no such boundaries. Cupid’s arrow has clearly pierced us both. To deny these feelings, which keep me bound, more than a madman is, would be a crime.
Call me but love for I am deeply entranced. I feel as a prisoner, being whipped and tormented, every minute I am absent from her heavenly shine. Love pricks like thorns but I have picked a rose. Cupid has lent me his wings and removed those heavy stakes that once anchored me to the ground. His light feathers have aided in my escape from griefs of mine own, which until now, have lied heavy in my breast.
O, Juliet! You have taught me to love, and in loving, you have allowed me to live. You are the sun to my world, the words to my prayer, and the key to my heart.
Yes, I have found myself. I am here. This is Romeo, he is here.
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Romeo's diary.
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Its really good. I liked how you mentioned the Anicent Grudge on the two families. It really made me feel how Romeo loved Juliet. You can just feel the love within Romeo.
ReplyDeleteI love your final line, which is a wonderfully apt reference to other scenes in the play - and you also work impressively hard to cram as much quotation into the diary as possible, of which you should be proud.
ReplyDeleteHowever, ultimately, I think there is perhaps a disproportionate amount of quotation, considering the relatively short length of the diary piece itself, leaving you insufficient time fully to develop his character or to dig sufficiently deeply into what makes him tick and to pick apart and analyse any of the quotations you use.
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I love this diary. You can really get into it, the way you are made to read it feels like the discombobulated-in-love teen we know and feel mediocre towards :) I think the amount of quotations you've used it balances really well, also they seem to fit in perfectly.
ReplyDeleteOne thing though it sorta stops with shorter sentences. Like the Christmas bit. It loses it's awesome momentem a bit.
But I loved it.