How does Shakespeare use language to show love in Romeo and Juliet? How does Shakespeare use language to show love in Romeo and Juliet?

From the
start, we seeas a teenager hopelessly in love with love. Interestingly, he describes his love
for Rosaline in religious terms:

When the devout religion
of mine eye
Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fire;
And these who,
often drowned, could never die,
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars.
One
fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match since first the world
begun.

Romeo also usesin describing Rosaline's beauty. He
says the sun has never seen anyone as beautiful as her since the world began. 

Romeo's worshipful and exaggerated love language helps to characterize him. He
naturally sees love in religious terms: he worships love. Worshipping love as he does, he tends
to exaggerate the attributes of the current beloved. He displays a teenager's over-the-top,
zany, single-minded intensity.

One could almost laugh at how quickly Romeo
switches his devotion from Rosaline to. He uses similar language about both. His religious eyes,
which he...