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Fear No More the Heat of the SunWilliam Shakespeare [1564-1616] ‘Fear No More...’ is an extract from one of  Shakespeare’s plays, Cymbeline. A complicated story with some cross dressing, kidnapping and scheming, but the important bit for us is that this poem/song is delivered when Fidele (the King’s daughter, Imogen, in disguise as a boy) seems to have died after drinking a potion and is mourned by two brothers she has sheltered with for some days and become friends with. In fact the potion merely creates symptoms like death and eventually she wakes up. The brother turn out to be her brothers who were kidnapped years ago and they manage to foil their step mothers plans to steal the throne for her son. At the age of 18 William married Anne Hathaway, a local farmer’s daughter aged 26. For 25 years, soon after the twins were born, Shakespeare worked as an actor and playwright in London. Shakespeare began a career with a London acting company and became well known as an actor and playwright within three years. 

Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun            Nor the furious winter’s rages;Thou thy worldly task hast done,            Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.Fear no more the frown o’ th’ great;            Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke.Care no more to clothe and eat;            To thee the reed is as the oak.The sceptre, learning, physic, mustAll follow this and come to dust.Fear no more the lightning flash,            Nor th’ all -dreaded-thunder-stone;Fear not slander, censure rash;            Thou hast finished joy and moan.All lovers young, all lovers mustConsign to thee and come to dust.No exorciser harm thee!Nor no witchcraft charm thee!Ghost unlaid forbear thee!Nothing ill come near thee!Quiet consummation have,And renownèd be thy grave!William Shakespeare  (1564-1616)

Overview ‘Fear No More The Heat O’ Th’ Sun’ is a poem reflecting on death. In the poem the poetic voice is trying to cope the death of a friend or a lover and views death as a blessing for the deceased as they have left all their worries and concerns behind.

Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun            Nor the furious winter’s rages;Thou thy worldly task hast done,            Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.Fear no more the frown o’ th’ great;            Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke.Care no more to clothe and eat;            To thee the reed is as the oak.The sceptre, learning, physic, mustAll follow this and come to dust.Fear no more the lightning flash,            Nor th’ all -dreaded-thunder-stone;Fear not slander, censure rash;            Thou hast finished joy and moan.All lovers young, all lovers mustConsign to thee and come to dust.No exorciser harm thee!Nor no witchcraft charm thee!Ghost unlaid forbear thee!Nothing ill come near thee!Quiet consummation have,And renownèd be thy grave!The poem is a type of funeral song in four stanzas of six lines each. The song is an attempt to find consolation in the death of a loved one. Its about coping with loss and rationalising death for the living so that life can go on, and love and how deep it bonds people together.There are two speakers, Guiderius and Arviragus.. The poem is addressed to the body of Fidele/Imogen.‘Fear no more’ is a comforting phrase that soothes the dead and those mourning. it suggests that she has gone to a better place and has no more worries of burdens. Soothing also for those who cherished the dead as they don’t have to contemplate a dark vision of death.Repetition emphasises this soothing effect.

Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun            Nor the furious winter’s rages;Thou thy worldly task hast done,            Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.In the first stanza, the speaker seems to address a beloved one, who has apparently died. The speaker begins by offering advice about death.Death is a removal from extremes of weather, hot sun in the first line and severe winter in the second line. However there is a hint of sadness that the person will no longer be able to feel the varied emotions of the human existence. Warmth, joy of summer and misery, coldness of winter that life has to offer.According to lines three and four, at the end of a natural life, a person has completed their work or mission in life and should be on their way to their reward in heaven.In lines five and six, the speaker claims that death comes equally to rich and poor, ‘golden’ people and ordinary chimneysweeps.

In the second stanza, lines seven and eight, the speaker claims that death is a benefit as it frees one from dread of the all-powerful (‘th’ great’ and ‘tyrant[s]’ being subject to punishing those that offend them). It removes us from the worries of life.Direct link to the play, the actions of the stepmother aimedat depriving rightful heirs. In line nine, death is a benefit because it frees one from economic pressure – e.g. having to feed and clothe yourself..Fear no more the frown o’ th’ great;            Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke.Care no more to clothe and eat;            To thee the reed is as the oak.The sceptre, learning, physic, mustAll follow this and come to dust.In line ten, the speaker points out that difference between strength and weakness makes no difference after death.In lines eleven and twelve the speaker lists three important types of people who cannot avoid death: king, professor and doctor. Non can escape death it is inevitable, end of mortality has no profession.

Fear no more the lightning flash,            Nor th’ all -dreaded-thunder-stone;Fear not slander, censure rash;            Thou hast finished joy and moan.All lovers young, all lovers mustConsign to thee and come to dust.In the third stanza, in lines thirteen and fourteen, the speaker suggests that death frees one from dread of violent weather. In lines fifteen and sixteen, the speaker lists as another benefit the fact that the dead are free from vicious gossip and the emotional ups and downs of living. No more emotional roller-coasterIn lines seventeen and eighteen, the speaker pronounces that all lovers eventually die.Uses pathetic fallacy lightning & thunder- ‘fear and shock’

No exorciser harm thee!Nor no witchcraft charm thee!Ghost unlaid forbear thee!Nothing ill come near thee!Quiet consummation have,And renownèd be thy grave!In the final stanza, lines nineteen, twenty, twenty one and twenty two the speaker argues that death frees a person from fear of demons, witches and evil spirits that torment the living. Instead haunting spirits will have to avoid the recently dead person [the deceased] the poem is addressing.Alternatively, this could be a contradiction of previous faith in afterlife as imperatives (commands) order spirits to let their friend rest in peace.In the final two lines, the speaker wishes the deceased freedom from evil, a quiet time in the grave and fame/remembrance after death.The poetic voice seems to fill with emotion as it commands nefarious spirits or magic to leave their beloved friend alone and wishes them a peaceful final slumber.

Themes 1. Mortality Young and old must die. The poet mentions ‘golden lads and girls’ as well as ‘lovers young’. Then he mentions ‘sceptre’ meaning rulers and ‘physic’ meaning doctor. All this implies that death may come at any age. ‘All must follow this’: nobody can avoid death. It comes to all in time. 2. Religion/Salvation After a full life, one must face death calmly and with some confidence. The poem is an argument against mourning.  Death grants freedom or refuge, through salvation, from extremes of climate, abuses of political power, poverty, public opinion and gossip, witchcraft and roaming spirits. The main argument is that one should not fear death. In any case, it is repeated three times that all things ‘come to dust’. At the end of the poem the speaker wishes the deceased a happy death, freedom from evil, tranquility in the grave and fame after death. Coping with loss and rationalising death for the living so that life can go on, Love and how deep it bonds people together.3. Life is brutal and horrifyingThe imagery of extreme weather, cruel rulers, lying gossip, meteorites all show that life is full of random dangers and fears. The ‘frown of the great’ and ‘winter’s rages’ show that unexpected torments and torture can happen at any time. Demons, witches and ghosts torment the living from the spiritual world. The repetition of the word ‘fear’ further emphasises the horrors of life.

Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun            Nor the furious winter’s rages;Thou thy worldly task hast done,            Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.Fear no more the frown o’ th’ great;            Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke.Care no more to clothe and eat;            To thee the reed is as the oak.The sceptre, learning, physic, mustAll follow this and come to dust.Fear no more the lightning flash,            Nor th’ all -dreaded-thunder-stone;Fear not slander, censure rash;            Thou hast finished joy and moan.All lovers young, all lovers mustConsign to thee and come to dust.No exorciser harm thee!Nor no witchcraft charm thee!Ghost unlaid forbear thee!Nothing ill come near thee!Quiet consummation have,And renownèd be thy grave!First three stanzas at a gentler more sombre pace – some caesuras particularly in the couplet at the end of each.Final stanza changes tone and pace as these ideas are spat out with a degree of desperation or panic.‘Censure’ meaning judgment.The poem compares the peacefulness of death to the ‘fears’ endured by the living. Where life may be lived in fear, death is free of all fears. This is the opposite of many people’s normal attitude to death.Imagery :The poet provides images of extreme weather in the first two lines. Images of cruel rulers are mixed in with images of rich young people, social distress and the supernatural.Symbol ‘Sceptre’ stands for a ruler such as a king, ‘frown of the great’ stands for strict authority.TechniquesThere is a force and commanding tone being used “!”. Desperation or hint of fear that death isn’t as peaceful as they claim.

Mood/Atmosphere The poem creates an emotional atmosphere as it addresses and laments the death of someone who is loved. The speaker urges calm and acceptance, which creates a quiet and tranquil mood while reading the poem.Hyperbole [Exaggeration]     The poet exaggerates the downside of life in order to promote acceptance of death: ‘furious winter’s rages’. Paradox [apparent contradiction]    Economic need is dismissed though ‘wages’, in a spiritual sense, are earned after death.Allusion  The phrase ‘come to dust’ is a repeated allusion [reference] to a famous image in the bible for death. – ‘Dust to dust’ – we were born of dust and return to that state in death.Tone Though the subject may appear to be a sad one, the tone is dignified and uplifting. The speaker utters the lines in a very positive tone. The notion that death is a time of quiet is put across in a calm manner. The tone in the final stanza is upbeat: ‘renowned be thy grave’.Repetition The main repetition reinforces the theme that death is not to be feared: ‘Fear no more’ occurs in stanzas one, two and three. A similar repetition reinforces the reality that death cannot be avoided: ‘come to dust’. Words like ‘harm’ and ‘charm’ close to each other create verbal music.Rhyme ABABCC in the first three stanzas. In the fourth the rhyme disappears in favour of a four-time repeated ‘thee’ which emphasises the desperation or emotion at this point and helps shift the tone of the poem.Assonance [similar vowel sound repetition]  The repeated long ‘o’ sounds in the opening line of the first and second stanza create a tone of lamentation. .Sibilance [repetition of ‘s’ sound] Note how the four ‘s’ sounds in the fifteenth line help create a nasty sense of secret, lying gossip. You almost hiss the line out mirroring the disgusting nature of this type of behaviour.More Techniques