Romeo and Juliet

explain the nature/flower imagery in lines 24-25 27-30

scene 2 act I

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I'm not sure if our numbers match up, but here is my take. The metaphor go girls, sex and plants can be examined in this seen. THe metaphor of ripe flowers and female genitalia is pretty common in Shakespeare. When Capulet debates about Juliet's tender age he says, "Let two more summers wither in their prideEre we may think her ripe to be a bride." Well maybe he means fruit but I always thought of flowers!

Again Capulet goes on about horny young men getting to pick their young "fresh fennel buds" at his party that evening.

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I'm not sure if our line-numbers match up, but here is my take. The metaphor of girls, sex and plants can be examined in this scene. The metaphor of ripe flowers and female genitalia is pretty common in Shakespeare and plenty of other literature. When Capulet debates about Juliet's tender age he says, "Let two more summers wither in their prideEre we may think her ripe to be a bride." Well maybe he means fruit but I always thought of flowers!

Again Capulet goes on about horny young men getting to pick their young "fresh fennel buds" at his party that evening.