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Latest post Sat, Feb 24 2007 5:06 AM by julielai. 2 replies.
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Jackson6612  +  332614 Sat, 24 Feb 07 12:02 AM
Please help me to find a philosophical poem about the life of man, and how his life changes while travelling the journey of life from birth to death by William Shakespeare. I haven't read the English version of that poem. I came to read translated version by chance and at that time I didn't pay attention to the real essence of that poem. But now my own life echoes in that poem. So, please help me to find that poem. Thank you
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MrPedantic  +  332637 Sat, 24 Feb 07 12:53 AM

Hello Jackson,

Is it this speech, from As You Like It?


All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's 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 honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
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 sav'd, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards the 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.


MrP

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julielai  +  332676 Sat, 24 Feb 07 05:06 AM
Just to add: This is generally known as the "Seven Ages Of Man" speech.
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