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where is the personification of death in romeo and jueliet

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love […] Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage" (Prologue) the fact that the death marked love is passing is personification, and here's more (cited by Act, Schene, Line) the one with the ---> is the death lies, death doesn't have a body, thus it is personification. NURSE She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day! LADY CAPULET Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! CAPULET Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold: Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: -----> Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. Nurse O lamentable day! LADY CAPULET O woful time! CAPULET Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak. (4.4.7)

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