All The World's a Stage
The line taken from As you like it. The poem has
presented real aspects of human life. The world and its people are presented
metaphorically as a stage and players. The poem ahs presented the entre human
life into seven different stages. It presents the beginning to end of the life
a human life. The first stage of the life is infanthood. He plays in the arms
of his nurse. He also vomits and cries in this stage. The second stage is
boyhood. He is a school-going boy. Carrying his bag, he goes school
unwillingly. The stage is stage of a lover. He composes ballads for his
beloved. The fourth stage is as being a soldier. He becomes aggressive and
ambitious with full of stage oaths. He seems like a leopard. He tries to get
reputation in his deeds. The fifth stage is a stage of maturity and wisdom. In
this stage, he becomes like a fair judge. He tries to provide fair judgment.
The sixth stage is a stage of old. In this stage, his voice gets changed and
become like childish. The final stage of human life is second childhood. In
this stage, he loses the faculties of all sensory perception.
The poem has presented the idea of medieval
philosophy. The first stanza deals the most important conceit. It depicts the
universality of the life process as it has been compared with theatrical
entrance and exists.
The poem begins with infancy and school days. It
presents the beginning of with infancy to school going boy. The word unwilling
refers to gradual denial of lose of freedom. It depicts the life move ahead
denying the freedom of one’s life. Talking about such loss of freedom in one’s
life, the poem further deals with another stage of life that is young lover. He
falls ahead over in love and feeling. The hot passion of the man desperate with
the use of image ‘furnace’, presents the way of life towards the revolution or
or crating his own level of freedom. The fourth stage, the soldiers, presents
the beginning of economic life. In this stage, a person wants to have his
reputation.
The next stage of life is a path of judge. It refers
to middle age. The word ‘fair and round belly’ presents good economic
condition. It refers the strength of one’s economic condition in middle age.
The next stage refers to retired life. It slips into
comfortable. The word pantaloon denotes the seeking of comfort in life. The
final stage of life is to live like childhood and finally move to exist point.
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