Read these lines spoken by Nurse and Lady Capulet in Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto
an hour. Lady Capulet: She’s not fourteen. Nurse: I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth— And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four— She is not fourteen. These lines allow the reader to see Nurse’s . great love for juliet
sense of humor
fear of Lady Capulet
shy personality
In “Hanging Fire” Lorde's focus is on several issues that confront the teenager within the poem and affect teenagers in the extended world: the preoccupation with death, the problem of living in a sexist society, and the fear of isolation within the home
