7 ages of man - By William Shakespheare “The 7 ages of man,” By William Shakespeare is about a person’s life and the stages throughout it. In the first three lines Shakespeare wrote about people “acting on stage,” but really he meant that we all put on a front for people, around different people we change our personalities to fit what that person likes. Throughout the poem he lists the 7 stages of man, starting with birth and ending with death. This poem uses a lot of poetic devices, imagery, for example. The phrase “At first, the infant, mewling an puking in his nurses arms.” I picture a baby entering the world and crying for the first time. This poem also includes repetition, in the last line the word “sans” is repeated. Also, this poem includes personification, in line 14 the poem read, “even in the cannons mouth.” Having a mouth is a human characteristic. Another poetic device is simile, “the lover sighing like a furnace.” This poem is considered free verse and don’t have much rhyming words. The stage me and most of my peers are in is the school boy, even though we are high school students we are still in school and none of us are willing to go, as said in the poem. This poem was well written and somewhat of a hard read, with all the complex words. This is the easiest poem to understand by Shakespeare but I’m excited to read more and try to interpret them.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts beeing seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling an puking in his nurse's arms:
And then the winning school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel;
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,
In fair round belly, with good capon lined,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well sav'd, a worl too wide
For his shrunk shanks; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
Ad whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends his strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion:
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
“The 7 ages of man,” By William Shakespeare is about a person’s life and the stages throughout it. In the first three lines Shakespeare wrote about people “acting on stage,” but really he meant that we all put on a front for people, around different people we change our personalities to fit what that person likes. Throughout the poem he lists the 7 stages of man, starting with birth and ending with death. This poem uses a lot of poetic devices, imagery, for example. The phrase “At first, the infant, mewling an puking in his nurses arms.” I picture a baby entering the world and crying for the first time. This poem also includes repetition, in the last line the word “sans” is repeated. Also, this poem includes personification, in line 14 the poem read, “even in the cannons mouth.” Having a mouth is a human characteristic. Another poetic device is simile, “the lover sighing like a furnace.” This poem is considered free verse and don’t have much rhyming words. The stage me and most of my peers are in is the school boy, even though we are high school students we are still in school and none of us are willing to go, as said in the poem. This poem was well written and somewhat of a hard read, with all the complex words. This is the easiest poem to understand by Shakespeare but I’m excited to read more and try to interpret them.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts beeing seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling an puking in his nurse's arms:
And then the winning school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel;
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,
In fair round belly, with good capon lined,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well sav'd, a worl too wide
For his shrunk shanks; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
Ad whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends his strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion:
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.