motif
love or intense emotions
The one that goes "Like fire and powder. Which as they kiss consume." is from William Shakespeare's infamous book Romeo and Juliet.
Passion, love, and violence. Fire is often used as a symbol of intense emotions and desires in the play, reflecting the fiery passion between the young lovers and the destructive consequences of their forbidden love.
Friar Lawrence said this line in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet." He says, "These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume."
The two motifs were Light/Darkness and Slow/Fast.
strong feelings
Shakespeare uses the word a fair bit. It is not obsolete but is uncommon, and was uncommon in Shakespeare's day. It means bad or evil. This is Prince Escalus in Romeo and Juliet: "What, ho! you men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins, On pain of torture, from those bloody hands Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground . . ."
strong feelings love or intense emotions
It was said by Friar Lawrence to Romeo in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene VI) Friar Laurence says this to Romeo just before he marries Romeo and Juliet. also bela says this is in the begining of new moon.
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI the full line is "These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume." In Romeo and Juliet its saying..these violent delights--romeo & Juliet falling in love when their famlies hate each other.. have violent ends and in their triumph die--obv. they both die at the end like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume...when you throw powder into a fire it just makes a bigger flame..so like romeo is fire and Juliet is powder-when they come together they burn or in their case ..ends in death. this is just in the simplest way i could put it-so someone could understand it-i hoped it gave you a better insight..im not exsactly an English scholar but i have studied shakesphere and this is actually my favorite pentameter in Romeo and Juliet One addition - the phrase "and in their triumph die" - flame is spectacular, but the spectacle is entirely due to its destructive force. So there is a tragic element - the powder can only triumph through its own destruction in flame. By analagoy, Romeo and Juliet's passion only burns so brightly because it, too, is self-destructive and will quickly consume them.
He uses Puns (words with a double meaning), Images, Metaphors, Similes (can be noticed through the words "as" and "like" ), Oxymoron's (loving hate, cold fire), Antithesis, Personification and some other common devices!
That it'll take a turn and back-fire horribly. If only he listened to his gut-instinct.