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    William Shakespeare's poem "All The World's A Stage" compares life to a stage play with seven ages of man. It describes each stage from infant to old age, portraying the different roles people play at each stage, from child to lover to soldier and beyond. The poem uses metaphor and repetition to illustrate how people enter the world, take on various roles and responsibilities throughout their lives, and ultimately exit leaving behind oblivion.

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    William Shakespeare's poem "All The World's A Stage" compares life to a stage play with seven ages of man. It describes each stage from infant to old age, portraying the different roles people play at each stage, from child to lover to soldier and beyond. The poem uses metaphor and repetition to illustrate how people enter the world, take on various roles and responsibilities throughout their lives, and ultimately exit leaving behind oblivion.

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    All The Worlds A Stage By

    William Shakespeare
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    Every individual, who is a fan of Literature, knows about William Shakespeare.


    There is absolutely no one in the field of Art, who doesnt know about him.
    William Shakespeare was a very popular English poet, actor as well as a
    playwright. He is the one, who has brought us fine scripts like Romeo and Juliet
    and Hamlet. His poem, All The Worlds A Stage, gained immense popularity, right
    when it was written and introduced to the readers of his time.

    Historical Perspective
    All The Worlds A Stage is a poem written by William Shakespeare. In fact, it was
    not a poem earlier, but a monologue from the maestros As You Like It. This
    monologue is said by Melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. As the speech
    begins, seven different stages of a mans life are all that can come into your mind.
    Each and every word is so beautifully written that you can actually imagine
    everything that is written, just like a movie running in front of your eyes.
    The seven stages of a mans life also refer to The Seven Ages Of Man. These ages
    are: infant, school going boy, lover/husband, soldier/fighter, justice/ability to
    understand the right and wrong, Pantalone (greediness and high in status) and old-
    age.

    In this poem, Shakespeare has compared life with a stage. He has used different
    words to beautify the poem in a wonderful way. He has taken this concept from
    medieval philosophy, which showed glimpses of several different groups as the
    seven deadly sins for theological reasons. Theology is the study of Gods nature
    as well as religious belief.
    All The Worlds A Stage Structure
    There are two major poetic devices used in this poem simile and metaphor.

    Simile examples in the poem: creeping like a snail; soldier bearded like the
    pard; etc.

    Metaphor examples in the poem: The entire poem itself is more like symbolism;
    men and women are portrayed as players whereas life is portrayed as the stage.

    Repetition is another figure of speech used in this poem; words like sans, age, etc.
    are repeated.

    The poet has used a narrative form to express his innermost emotions about how
    he thinks that the world is a stage and all the people living in it are mere players or
    characters. These characters go through seven different phases in their lives.

    All The Worlds A Stage Poetic


    Form
    All the worlds a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances,
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurses arms.
    Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
    Made to his mistress eyebrow. Then a soldier,
    Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
    Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
    Seeking the bubble reputation
    Even in the cannons 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 slippered pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
    His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
    As the poem begins, you are dragged to a stage. It is like you are the audience,
    and you are watching a drama on the stage, right in front of your eyes.

    All The Worlds A Stage tells you that all the men and women are mere characters
    in the drama, which is played on the stage (in the world). They have their exits
    and their entrances; this means that all the people take birth and then die after a
    certain period of time.
    When the man enters into the world, he has seven different ages or phases to go
    through. When he goes through these ages, he has to play different roles. These
    roles depict a man as a son, his responsibilities as a brother, father, husband,
    fighter for the nation, etc.

    The man begins his act on the stage as an infant; he pukes in the arms of his nurse
    and cries to be in the comfort of his mother.
    The second act starts right when he turns into a school going boy, who is
    unwilling to go to school and unwilling to take the responsibility of being a
    student.

    The third act , then comes when he turns into a lover; his lover is the only person
    he sees dancing in front of his eyes. For him, there is absolutely no other place
    that can comfort him, than the eyebrow of his lover.

    The fourth act portrays the man as a soldier or a fight for the nation. His beard
    depicts all those strange oaths that he takes to protect his country and all the men
    and women living in it. No doubt he quarrels, but he also maintains his dignity to
    create and develop his reputation in front of others around him. This is perhaps the
    toughest stage in his life.
    Then comes the fifth act, where he turns into justice, the one who knows what is
    good and what is right. At this stage, he is perhaps the best person to approach to
    find out who is correct and who is wrong.

    The fifth stage comes into his life as he enters the stage of Pantalone, where he
    has a high status in society, yet he is greedy for more. This stage does not remain
    for long in his life.

    Alas! The last stage comes for him to go through oblivion. No matter how hard he
    tries to remember things, he is just not able to. When he enters old-age, he turns
    into a child again. Slowly, he begins losing his teeth, his vision, the taste in his
    mouth and the love or greed for everything that he once wanted in his life.

    Personal Commentary
    All The Worlds A Stage takes you to two stages melancholy and epiphany.
    When you read about the second last and last stages of the mans life, you realize
    that life is nothing, but mere play. All you need to do is take birth and leave, after
    performing all your duties. Why do you need all the fame, name and money? Why
    do you want to have everything in life, when you would have absolutely nothing
    at all by the end of your play?
    Personally, I feel that this poem also talks about the roles of other people in your
    life. Just like you are playing your part, so are they! They enter into your lives to
    teach you something new, and leave, gifting you a bunch of memories to dwell
    upon.

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