Read the excerpt from Shakespeare's Romeo and What does the speaker's use of oxymorons suggest
Juliet.
about love?
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O The speaker is suggesting that love is necessary
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
even if people fight sometimes.
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
• The speaker is suggesting that there was a big fight
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
between lovers just now.
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is
• The speaker is suggesting that love is confusing and is
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
encompasses everything all at once.
• The speaker is suggesting that no one should ever
fall in love.