... , not to simply burst in upon her. It is the tension between his overwhelming desire and his reticence that shows how much he truly loves her. The comparison of a woman's eyes to bright stars was a commonplace, but Shakespeare makes it new by elaborating it in a dazzling series of lines dwelling on the luminosity of Juliet's beauty. In what way does he ... say her eyes are brighter than stars? Note the physically intimate image of ll. 24-25. Any poet could call his lady angelic; Shakespeare composes a mini-poem on the theme in ll. 26 ... listened to the advice given to them by the Friar...

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