The piece of poetry that Virginia Woolf uses in her novel is alluding to the poem found in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The poem is a type of funeral song, trying to find consolation after the death of a loved one. Clarissa reads the poem after thinking some tumultuous thoughts about how much life matters, and the poem almost seems to be there to console her.
Shakespeare, William. "Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun." Cymbeline. The Poetry Foundation. Web. 05 June 2012. <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176855>.
Woolf, Virginia, and Francine Prose. Mrs. Dalloway. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003. Print.
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