The violent delight is crystalized in lines 11-13, “The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in taste confounds the appetite.” The friar shows how something so sweet can be destructive. He uses honey to portray the strong love between the two lovers. Implicitly this line means that too much of each other will cause death. Friar Lawrence calls the sweet honey loathsome in his own deliciousness, which is a personification of the honey. Honey cannot be a man because it is not human. Implicitly this line means that too much of each other will cause death. Shakespeare intentionally personifies honey to represent the two and their extreme love for each other. It can also be interpreted as a pet name for Romeo or Juliet. Calling
