The following is an "illuminated" text. This is my interpretation of The Lovers' First Meeting. By linking words or phrases from a text or piece of literature to a website, video, or picture that represents it, students will be exploring the nature of the text as well as alternative meanings to words. This is a very fun, easy and interesting assignment that forces the student to understand the text that is being read to appropriately match words to links. A great way to make this assignment complete would to have the student write a short answer or essay explaining their choices and how they connect with the original text.
The Lovers' First Meeting
Rom. If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss .
Rom. Have not saint's lips, and holy palmer's too?
Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Rom. Oh, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Jul. Saint's do not move though grant for prayers' sake.
Rom. Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
—Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V
Rom. If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss .
Rom. Have not saint's lips, and holy palmer's too?
Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Rom. Oh, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Jul. Saint's do not move though grant for prayers' sake.
Rom. Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
—Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V