(If for some reason you missed high school and college - I'm assuming because you were homeschooled - loser - too bad. There's a difference between a "cool parent" and a parent "who tries too hard." You're days of being popular and loved by all have already come and gone. Yellow teeth are indeed, the greatest threat to mankind - no doubt.ĭon't try to be as cool as your kids. When I originally read the clincher line in my head, the voice that played in my head (yes, I do hear voices in my head - perhaps I should have that checked out one day.but the voices do say that I shouldn't worry about it) was the dark, ominous bellow of the narrator for the commercial for It Came From Outer plete with the shrilling, overly dramatic music and screams, as well. Gee." How did this man and woman live with themselves!? They were probably less happy when their teeth were yellow and more embarrassed about flashing those big gorgeous smiles at the cameras.well, who am I kidding? There were no cameras around before those pearly whites were.well, pearly white. There is a sense of sadness that is evoked when you read, "They Had Yellow Teeth." Obviously, this picture denotes this man and woman as having white teeth and they look extremely happy about that fact! But alas, once upon a time, they had YELLOW teeth! "Oh. What made me take a second look at this was the fact that it almost has a connotation of doom 'n' gloom to it. Romeo’s words – that leaden feather, the heavy lightness, and bright smoke – are as airy as those of the feud’s origin.1st, the main line in this ad is like any other - big, pronounce, simple - easy to spot and register in one's mind without a second thought. Only in the last line, the repeated this might undercut it: truly Romeo feels no love in this, because this love cannot be felt – only recited, mouthed in words borrowed from others. Instead, there are impossible pairs neatly and symmetrically lined up there’s no twist of chiasmus to give a line torsion (all the constructions are parallel, the lines end-stopped). The inbuilt tension of a sonnet, the dynamism of stichomythia, the dangerous rhythms of words which turn to blows: all of these are lacking here. The series of oxymora has a kind of forced energy and intensity, but it’s too conventional, too neat it’s smoke without fire. Nothing here is real: Romeo missed the fray that has occasioned this outpouring Rosaline never appears. What this isn’t – yet – is an account of lived experience, or properly felt, embodied emotion the emotions are as second-hand as the language used to express them. The sheer copiousness of Romeo’s list, its excess, as much as its paradoxes ( brawling love, loving hate cold fire, sick health, and the rest) draws attention to its unreality: this is a poetic exercise for Romeo, a regurgitation of commonplaces that might as well be taken straight from his own notebook, gathered under the heading ‘love (unrequited)’. One of the ways of reading this passage is as a checklist of Petrarchan tropes, specifically oxymoron. This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! ROMEO Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,įeather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
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