Question

Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in a paragraph format.

Answer 1

The poem titled ‘All the World’s a Stage was written by the famous English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare. There is no fixed rhyme scheme in this poem as it is written in a free verse format, but the poem does follow a steady rhythm of five beats in every line. Because of this uniformity in rhythm, the poem is a blank verse. The figures of speech used in the poem are Alliteration, Consonance, Hyperbole, Inversion, Metaphor, Metonymy, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Simile, and Transferred Epithet. An example of a simile is “And then the lover sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad” - where the lover’s sigh is compared to the sound of a furnace. The central idea of the poem is that each man has various roles to play. Throughout his life, the poem is written as a metaphor for life. It shows that life is arranged in a particular order, wherein each individual lives through different phases. It also highlights the theme of the constant changes that take place throughout our lives.