Overall the reference of light is extremely significant to the play and mainly to act II scene II. During the dark of nighttime, lighted simply by the moon, Romeo feels joyful and vivid. He has found true love in Juliet, who he contrasts to the sun in her brightness and warmth.
             One reference to light can be found when Romeo enters the Capulet orchard and is watching Juliet at her window, and she does not know that he is there. Romeo says "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon." Another reference to light made by Romeo to Juliet is in the same scene during the same speech when Romeo says "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven. Would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night." Romeo uses the first reference to contrast her to the sun with more glow than the moon that illuminates the garden. Then he uses the second reference in regards to her eyes and questions what would happen in the heavens if her stunning eyes became stars.
             Another reference to light made in this scene is when both star-crossed lovers confess their love to one another. Juliet asks Romeo to swear by his love, and he swears by the moon. Juliet says "O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable." Than the lovers promise themselves to each other and exchange vows.
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