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SUBJECT - ENGLISH. CLASS- IX SECTION - B TOPIC- POEM THE SEVEN AGES - by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PREPARED BY- KRISHNA KUMARI RANA TGT (ENGLISH). ABOUT THE POET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Date of Birth- April 23 , 1564 at Stratford-upon-Avon Date of Death- 1616

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  1. SUBJECT- ENGLISH CLASS- IX SECTION -B TOPIC-POEM THE SEVEN AGES - by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PREPARED BY- KRISHNA KUMARI RANA TGT (ENGLISH)

  2. ABOUT THE POET WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Date of Birth-April 23, 1564at Stratford-upon-Avon Date of Death-1616 He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare used poetic and dramatic means to create unified aesthetic effects. In verse he perfected the dramatic blank verse.  He wrote a book of 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and about three dozen plays.

  3. ‘The Seven Ages’ is actually one of the many speeches of a melancholy character Jaques,in Shakespeare’s play ‘As You Like It’. The poet compares this world to a stage of a theatre and all its men and women to actor and actresses. They take birth,play seven different roles and die. • ABOUT THE POEM

  4. The seven stages of man’s life are:- First stage- an infant Second stage- school boy Third stage- lover Fourth stage- soldier Fiftg stage- justice Sixth stage-old - ‘pantaloon’ Seventh stage - second childishness

  5. RHYMING SCHEME The poem is written in free verse ;so it has no rhyming scheme. LITERARY DEVICES Simile creeping like snailSighing like furnace, bearded like the pard,metaphor bubble reputation Alliteration a world too wide For his shrunk shank, Repetition Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything

  6. All the world’s a stageAnd 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.

  7. Questions 1.What is the poetic device used in the first line ? 2. What has the world been compared to ?3. ‘All the men and women merely players’ What does it mean ?4. “ In his time” What does it mean ?5. What does “exits and entrances” refer to ?

  8. 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 . Word Meaning mewling crying puking being sick, vomiting satchel a small bag whining crying loudly

  9. QUESTIONS Questions What are the characteristics of the first stage of human life ? Why does the schoolboy have a shining face ? Why is he creeping like a snail ? Why is he whining ?

  10. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Word Meaning woeful very sad sighing taking deep breath

  11. QUESTIONS Which poetic device is used in the second line of this stanza ? What is the lover compared to and why ? Why is the lover’s ballad described as ‘woeful’ ?

  12. Then a soldier. Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, Jealous in honour, and sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. Word Meaning oath promises pard leopard cannon a big gun bubble reputation short lived fame

  13. Then a soldier. Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, Jealous in honour, and sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. Word Meaning oath promises pard leopard cannon a big gun bubble reputation short lived fame

  14. QUESTIONS To which stage of life does the soldier belong to ? What makes the soldier and a pard look alike ? What is the pard a symbol of ? What poetic device is used in the fourth line of this stanza ? What poetic device used in the second line of this stanza ? Why does the reputation has been described as bubble ?

  15. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws a modern instances; And so he plays his part. Word Meaning capon big and fat male chicken justice judge saws sayings

  16. QUESTIONS a) What does ‘fair and round belly’ indicate ? b) What does the justice do to show his wisdom ? c) What are the characteristics of a justice’s stage ?

  17. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big mainly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.

  18. Word Meaning slippered wearing slippers pantaloon a funny old man pouch a soft fold of loose skin that hangs down hose tight fitting leg coverings shank leg from knee to ankle treble high voice

  19. QUESTIONS a) What does ‘slippered pantaloon’ indicate ? b) What does ‘youthful hose’ refers to ? c) What are the characteristics related to this stage of life ?

  20. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. word Meaning oblivion forgetful sans without

  21. QUESTIONS What does ‘strange and eventful’ history refer to ? What has the last stage of human life been called? Explain the characteristics related to this stage of life ? What does the last line of the stanza highlight about man ?

  22. MESSAGE The poem is a cynical comment on the transitoriness(short- livedness) of life and holds out a very significant lesson that we should live our different parts of life as well as we can in order to live asuccessfullife.We should alsoaccept death as the ultimate reality of life.

  23. HOME ASSIGNMENT &PROJECT HOME ASSIGNMENT Write the meaning of new words . Frame questions stanzawise and write their answers in short. Find out the literary words used in the poem. PROJECT Prepare ppt of this poem in groups(4-5 students in each group.

  24. THANK YOU & HAVE A NICE DAY

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