Stages

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Stages
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The Seven Ages.

• By
• William Shakespeare

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About The Poet

• William Shakespeare was born in
  Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 23, 1564 and died
  in 1616. He is considered by many to be the
  greatest dramatist of all time. He wrote a book
  154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and about
  three dozen plays. Shakespeare used poetic and
  dramatic means to create unified aesthetic
  effects. In verse he perfected the dramatic blank
  verse. This extract is taken from Shakespeares
  Play As You Like It

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Worlds a stage

• 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.

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The Infant First Stage

• At first the infant, mewling and puking in the
  nurses arms.

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School Boy-Second Stage

• Then the whining school boy, with his satchel.
• And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  unwillingly to school.

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The Lover-Youth-Third Stage

• And then the lover,sighing like furnace,
• With a woeful ballad
• Made to his mistresss eyebrow.

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Soldier-Fourth Stage

• 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 cannons mouth.

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Middle Age-The Justice-Fifth Stage

• And then the justice,
• In fair round belly with good capon lined,
• With eyes severe and beard of formal cut ,
• Full of wise saws (sayings) and modern instances.
• And so he plays his part.

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Sixth Stage-Old age

• The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered
  pantaloon.
• With spectacles on nose and pouch on side
• His youth hose,well saved a world too wide
• Forhis shrunk shankand his big manly voice,
• Turning again towards childish treble,pipes and
  whistles in his sound

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Seventh Stage-Second Childishness

• Last scene of all
• That ends this strange eventful history,
• Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,
• Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
  everything

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WORD MEANING

• 1.mewling crying
• 2.puking being sick, vomiting
• 3.satchel a small bag, for carrying school book
• 4.woeful very sad
• 5.oaths solemn promises
• 6.pard leopard (a symbol of fierceness in
  Shakespeares time)
• 7.cannon a big gun that fired cannon-balls made
  of iron
• 8.justice judge
• 9.capon a male chicken, very big and fat
• 10.saws saying

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• 11.slippered wearing slippers(indoor shoes)
• 12.pantaloon a funny old man, on whom other
  people play tricks
• 13.pouch a soft fold of loose skin that hangs
  down, as a result of illness or old age
• 14.hose tight-fitting leg coverings
• 15.shank legs from the knees to the ankle
• 16.treble a high voice
• 17.oblivion forgetting everything, and being
  forgotten by everybody
• 18.sans (pronounced like sone) a French word
  meaning without

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LITERARY DEVICES USED BY THE POET

• METAPHORSIMPLIED COMPARISONS
• ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE.
• THE WHINING SCHOOL BOY.
• IN SECOND CHILDISHNESS

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SIMILE

• 1.CREEPING LIKE A SNAIL
• SIGHING LIKE A FURNACE.
• BEARDED LIKE A PARD.

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Some of his important works are

• MACBETH
• ROMEO AND JULIET
• AS YOU LIKE IT
• THE SEVEN AGES is an extract from
• AS YOU LIKE IT.

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MESSAGEDear friends, Life is a
journey,Life is a gift, make the best use of
it.Remember we have only one Life to live, Love
yourself-Respect the stages of life as you grow
live your life to the fullest.What you are is
Gods gift to you What you become is your gift
to God.
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COMPREHENSION1What is life compared to in the
poem SEVEN AGES ?

• 2.List the stages of life given in the poem
  according to your
• Choice .
• 3 .Give examples of literary devices used by the
  poet .
• HOME WORK-----
• Make a similar power point presentation comparing
  life to the four seasons in a year.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT S

• I Thank the,Principal for giving me this
  opportunity for presenting the power point.
• I also wish to thank my colleagues for their
• co-operation
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  Thank You