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The play has been leading up to this moment. Romeo is about to kill himself by drinking poison so he can be in heaven with Juliet, or the other place. Wherever he is going he has a chance of being with her he doesn't have, or doesn't think he has, in this life. We know that if he holds off long enough Juliet will wake up; he sees already that she is waking without understanding what he sees. So the soliloquy is full of tension--if Juliet wakes up before Romeo takes the poison, they will live happily ever after, but if he takes the poison first, they will both die. And that is what happens.

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