In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo states that Juliet is the sun, and she says that he is the night. How is this an oxymoron?

At the beginning of act
2, scene 2,climbs into 's garden and calls her the "fair sun" who can kill the
"envious moon" (2.2.3). He implies, with thiscomparing Juliet to the sun, that she is
as vital to his life as the sun might be: that she is the very center of his universe. He also
claims that the sun is far more beautiful than the moon. Then later, in act 3, scene 2, Juliet
awaits her new husband's arrival at her bedroom. As she waits, she addresses the coming
nighttime, saying that, when she dies, the night should:

Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven
so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to
the garish sun. (3.2.24€“27)

Although Romeo has
associated Juliet with daytime and the sun, she clearly associates him with nighttime and the
stars. While he held the sun up as beautiful, she denigrates and insults it, calling it
garish. This seems to be a bit ofthat the two will never be able to live a
life together, just as the sun and the night must always exist apart. It is not an , however; it
is most accurately described as figurative language that foreshadows their untenable
future.