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“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night.”

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Romeo is standing in a dark courtyard and describing Juliet as though she were the source of light rather than a person inside it. The simile of the torches matters: the fire is still his, it is simply burning better now that she has come into it.

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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