Metaphor in Romeo and Juliet
Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Feel free to watch the presentation again from this lesson to remind you of how to approach a passage that contains a metaphor:
Year 9 English – Shakespearian Language from Edutronic.net on Vimeo.
