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Read the following stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow each : 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. (i) Why does the poet call this world a huge theatre? (ii) Why do the poet call men and women merely players? (iii) Identify the figure of speech, ‘All the world’s a stage’.(iv) Name all the stages mentioned here. |
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Answer» (i) Poet call this world huge theatre because men and women who are born in this world play different roles assigned to them by destiny and God is the spectator of this drama performed by them. (ii) The poet calls men and women merely players because they do not choose their roles themselves. They are merely puppets in the hands of God. Their roles are allotted to them and they can not oppose their roles. (iii) Figure of speech ‘metaphor’. (iv) The poet has mentioned seven stages-infant, school-going boy, lover, soldier, judge, the man of age and the dotage of old age. |
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