Hi my friends,
I have a presentation of
William Shakespeare's ''The Seven ages of man'' in my English class.I read the
poem and the teachers wants me to find outstanding metaphors and similes in it.I
could not understand metaphors and similes subjects so I have difficulty in
finding them.Here is the poem:
"All the world's 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 nurse's arms;
Then
the whining school-boy, 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 slipper'd 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 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." — Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines
139-166)
I just want you to show me some examples of metaphors and
similes so that I cand find others by myself.For example;I thought one age of a
persone is compared to pantaloon.Is it a metaphor or not?I cannot get so much
sure.Thank you.
