‘Fear no more the heat of the sun’ is written by William Shakespeare, in the time Elizabethan England, during the later part of the renaissance period, when society was very structured, and different from today. Shakespeare was an infamous poet and playwright who wrote many sonnets and plays- tragedies, comedies and histories, whose common themes were love, life and death. ‘Fear no more’, is derived from the play Cymbeline, one of his later comedies. It is a Dirge or funeral song for the heroine Imogen. In this poem, Shakespeare presents a very strong argument to the reader, and does this using numerous poetic devices.
Shakespeare exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes in life, and to contrast between life and death. Through this he crea
Connotations are ideas or associations that are suggested by a word. In stanza one, line five, ‘Golden’ is a connotation of young. In stanza two, line four- ‘to thee the reed is as the oak’-connotes strength and weakness- comparing the strength of the oak to the weakness of the reed, meaning that strong or weak it ultimately doesn’t matter for death is inevitable. Shakespeare employs this device to outline different groups of people, and qualities- young or old, strong or weak which will face death. This reinforces his commanding theme- not to fear life and its struggles for afterwards there is always the reassurance of death, he is almost inferring that death is peaceful- a time to look forward to, after life.
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a word tha
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