Monday, September 29, 2008

Shakespeare


“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun / Nor the furious winter’s rages” (9).

These are two lines from a Shakespearean song, “Elegy,” which appears in Shakespeare’s play Cymbeline. “Elegy” is a funeral song, which Clarissa happens to read as she is thinking about life and survival. Clarissa’s thoughts are contrasted by the two lines from “Elegy,” which are about the changing of the seasons and the passing of time, which represent aging and death.

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