When death comes to us we won’t fear anything. He’s telling us that we won’t fear the heat of the sun, the winters rage, the frown of the great which are the people of a higher position than us in life, the lighting flash, the thunder stone, and the slander censure rash. Nothing is going to harm us when we are dead. You will be quietly consumed and renowned by the grave. I think the author wrote this poem about death because someone that he loved and was close to passed away, or maybe he was just thinking about death and what happens after that.
Shakespeare used many figurative language in the poem. In the first stanza, second line “nor the furious winter’s rage”, is and example of metaphor. “Gold lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers come to dust” is an example of simile in the first stanza,