William
Shakespeare has written 37 plays and 154 sonnets that bear his name. ‘Fear No More’ is an extract from one of
Shakespeare’s plays ‘Cymbeline’. In the original play the dead one is called Imogen ,
though disguised as a boy, Fidele. In fact Fidele or Imogen has just took a
drug that only fakes death. Two friends immediately begin to mourn.
Shakespeare’s poem ‘Fear No More’ is
actually a part of his drama,‘Cymbeline’. It appears as a song on the death of
one of the characters. This poem is based on the concept of immortality of
death. The poet wants to say that death over power everything else. This poem
is divided to three stands and every one of them gives prominence to the in
inevitability of death.
The poem is a type of funeral song in
four stanzas of six lines each. There are two speakers, poem is addressed to
the body of Fidele. In the first
stanza, Speaker begins by offering the
advise about death. Death is removal from extreme weather , hot sun in the
first line and severe winter in the second line. At the end of the natural
life, a person has completed their work
in life and should be on their way to their reward in heaven. Then he
claims that death comes equally to rich and poor ‘golden’ people and ordinary
chimney sweepers.
In the second and third stanza, the
speaker claims that death is benefit as it frees one from dread of all powerful
and from economic pressures. The speaker points out that difference between
strength and weakness make no difference after death. Then he lists three
important types of people who can’t avoid death, ‘king, professor and doctor’.
Everybody from king to normal person
will have to die one day and turn to dust.
In last stanza, the speaker tells us not
to be afraid of lighting or cloud burst
and we shouldn’t be afraid of any negative
opinions given by anybody because
for a dead man everything seems to be natural even the young lovers have to go
to the same place as the elders did that is to death and to dust. This poem
suggest the ultimate reality of life and death. Death is actually freedom which
is justify properly in the song by William Shakespeare .
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