ROMEO:
I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
translated script
ROMEO:
I fear that I will be too early and that my death will happen because of this party.
But fate is steering me in a direction which I have no control over.
Onward happy gentlemen.
October 14, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I really like how you’ve managed to condense the main message of this passage into so few words.
The next step would be to explore one of the metaphors in detail. You clearly understand what Romeo is saying here – but if you had to explain it to someone else, it would be good to unpack the metaphor of the “steerage of my course”, for example, and explain what it implies.
Nice work
CW