Adonais Immortality Quotes

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awaken'd from the dream of life; (343-344)

So be at peace, he says. It's life that was a dream and, now that he's dead, the youth is finally awake.

And death is a low mist which cannot blot
The brightness it may veil. (391-392)

Here the speaker compares death to fog; it hangs close to the earth and tries (but fails) to diminish life.

What Adonais is, why fear we to become? (459)

Good question there, Mr. Speaker. If death is as nice as the speaker imagines it to be, then why should anyone fear it?