All the World’s a stage is a poem written by world famous, English Playwright and Poet, William Shakespeare. The poem was originally published in 1623. The poem explore the theme of time and age.
All The World’s A Stage Line By Line Explanation
The 7 Stages of Man By William Shakespeare are : –
Infant
School Boy
Lover
Soldier
Justice
Old man
Very old age
Summary of All the world’s A Stage Poem By William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage is a monologue from Shakespeare’s famous play, “As you Like it”. The poem is a speech from from play, “As you Like it”s character, Jaques.
The story begins with poet who is comparing world with a stage and men and women its character. The poet describe world as a stage and the men and women are its actors who are playing different roles in it. All of them have their own exit and entry. Here poet is talking about birth and death.
The poet has described life in such a way like it is a play. Every single man in his life plays many parts. Every human being have seven stages in his life which means every person plays seven different role in his life.
The first role is of infant, an infant who is crying and vomiting in nurse’s arms, the second stage is of school boy who complains all the time. The second stage is of school boy who don’t want to go to school but still he has to go and goes school by creeping like a snail.
Third stage is of lover, when we grown up, we become a lover, ours breath turns hot and develop passion in blood. When we fall in love for the first time, our heart starts to suffer and we begin to listen sad songs. He sings these sad songs for his lover.
Fourth stage is of Soldier, the soldier life’s stage comes after graduation, it comes when we complete our studies and starts practical life. We become to ready to accept the challenges of our life like a soldier. In soldier life, we are full of passion and gets ready to shake the world.
The soldier life is a life which is full of passion like a leopard, it is that stage of life where things can easily offend us and make us angry. We protect our reputation and cares a lot about our reputation and respect. Sometimes, we care about our reputation and respect so much that we gets ourselves into trouble.
In fifth stage we become experienced and clever enough to judge things. We feels like know everything about the world and we start judging people. In this stage, we stops becoming fashionable and starts wearing formal dresses. At this stage of our life, we have lots stories. And this is how we play fifth stage of our life.
In the sixth stage, we become weak and our body turns thin, we have spectacles on our nose, and pouch on side. The sixth stage is old stage where we grow old and our clothes and shoes become loose. Our big manly voice turns into thin voice like child. And when we speak, whistling sound comes from our voice.
The Seventh stage ends our eventful history from the world. This is the last stage of our life where we wait for the death to come. In seventh stage, our second childishness starts. The seventh stage is that stage of life where we do not have teeth, eyes and taste.
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