All The World's A Stage :
☆ Information :
" To be or not to be
that is the question "
- Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English Playwright, poet and Actor. He is regarded as the greatest writer as well as known as ' Bard of Avon' . He is the national poet of England. His works are.........
☆ His Plays :
- Hamlet
- Romeo And guliet
- Macbeth
- King Lear......
☆ His Poem :
- Shall I Compare Thee to a summer's day.
☆ About the poem :
" Life is like a game,
just play it. "
This is rightly true about the poem . Here, in the poem Shakespeare taks about different stages of life . Shakespeare shows the seven stage of life .
" All the men and
Women , are players "
We all are players on the stage . We perform our role and exist discuss this idea in detail .
☆ Summary / Analysis :
This poem is taken from his Play ' As you like it '. There are seven stages of life that we live on .
□ 1st stage of life........
" All the World's a stage and all the men and Women are players . "
SEVEN STAGES OF MAN'S
LIFE AND HIS ACTS .
□ Infanthood stage :
The first stage of a man's life is infanthad . He Plays in the arms of his nurse (mother) . He often vomits and is fully dependent on other's care .
□ Stage of Boyhood :
In his second stage of Boyhood, he is a school going student . He slings his bag over his shoulder with his shining face and creeps to school unwillingly like a snail .
□ Stage of a lover :
He becomes a lover in his third stage. Here his breath is hot. He is very busy composing ballads for his beloved's eyebrows and yearns for her attentions.
□ Stage of a soldier :
In the fourth stage, he is aggressive and ambotious with full of strange oatha. He seems like a leopard with his beard. He seeks reputation in all that he does. He is willing to die in a battle to earn the bubble reputation. He country and becomes a Soldier.
□ Stage of maturity and wisdom :
In his fifth stage, he becomes fair judge with maturity and wisdom. He has a potent rbelly. He seems firm and serious with his eyes and formal cut beard. He tries to provide fair justice to others.
□ Stage of old age :
In the sixth stage, he is seen with loose pantaloons and spectacles. He becomes a thin old man. His manly voice changes into a thin childish tone.
□ Stage of Extreme old age (second childhood) :
The last stage of all is his second childhood. Slowly, he loses his faculties of sight, hearing, smell and taste and exist from the roles of his life.
☆ Title of the poem :
" Title shows the central
Idea of the poem. "
The title of the poem is taken from William Shakespeare's as you like it. Title shows the seven stage of life. The title is short,sweet and suitable.
☆ Theme :
" Theme explains the
Core idea . "
There are many theme. Some are major and some are minor. The major themes are;
● Themes ●
1. Courage
2. Hope
3. Lose
4. Dream
☆ Tone :
~ Depressing
☆ Rhyming Scheme :
Unrhymed it writting in blank verse .
☆ Figures of speech :
~ Simile
~ Alliteration
~ Repetition
☆ Conclusion :
Thus, Shakespeare has presented different images of the seven stages of a man's life in the poem " All the World's a stage ".
" Life is like a drama,
and th e wor'd is a
Stage where we all
are actors and play
our roles . "
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Name : Sandhya Bhut
Subject : Comp. English
Std : B.A. Sem: 1 ( F.Y.)
Guidance By : Meena Ma'am
