A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

In this poem the poet is mourning the death of a loved one. He says that a deep sleep has taken his spirit or joy or the desire to live. After her death it seems that she cannot fell the touch of earthy years. This is a way to tell that after death the time stops and stands still and the person who is dead need not fear about growing old. She is motionless, and cannot hear or see a thing.

Even planet earth’s routine course of moving on its axis has no effect on her, although it can move the stationary rocks and stones along with it. In other words after the death she has reached beyond earth’s power as well because she no more a mortal being.

Fear No More

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This poem is about the inevitable which happens to all of us. After someone dies he is free of his physical body. The soul is free and it need not fear the heat of the sun or the ferocity of the winter. Everybody, including superstars, has to turn to the dust someday and nobody can escape from the inevitability called death. Once a person is free of the physical body he need not worry about clothes and food. For him a flute is same as a tree. The lightning or thunder cannot harm the soul.

This is more or less like Krishna’s preaching in the Gita. In the Gita Krishna says that soul is the real thing and body is like a cloth which we take off after it becomes worn out. Fire cannot burn it, water cannot dissolve it and air cannot sweep it off. After the death the soul becomes free of all the worldly desires.