Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Themes: Romeo's Pilot
Holding up the cup of poison, Romeo speaks to it, saying 'Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!' (5.3.116-118). In this metaphor, the 'pilot' is the poison and Romeo's life is the ship ('bark') which the pilot will run upon the rocks to be dashed to pieces.
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