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Question
Read the poem carefully and complete the following table.
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
| 1 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 2 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 3 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 4 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 5 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 6 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
| 7 | .......................... |
1. .......................... 2. .......................... |
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Solution
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
| 1 | Infant |
1. He is crying in the nurse’s arms. 2. He is throwing up in the nurse’s arms. |
| 2 | Schoolboy (childhood) |
1. He has a shining morning face. 2. He carries his satchel and whines to go to school. |
| 3 | Lover (teenage) |
1. He is sighing like a furnace as he is in love. 2. He writes a woeful ballad on his lover’s eyebrow. |
| 4 | Soldier (young man) |
1. He is bearded like a leopard and 1s ready to take on any challenge to prove his manliness. 2. He is ready to fight anyone who questions his honour and wants to build a reputation for himself, however short-lived. |
| 5 | Justice (middle-aged man) |
1. He has a fair, round belly that is full of well-cooked chicken; his eyes are severe, and he has a formal cut beard. 2. He is full of wise sayings as he has now experienced the world and is up-to-date with everything happening around him. |
| 6 | An elderly man (senior citizen) |
1. He is lean, wears spectacles and slippers as well as close-fitting I trousers. He even carries a pouch on his side. 2. His big and manly voice has now turned into a soft and meek one that is weaker than a child’s treble. |
| 7 | An old man (second childhood) |
1. He has turned senile and is compared to a child as he has now become dependent on others. 2. He has lost his teeth, eyesight, and taste. He now lives in a state of mere oblivion as his memory also starts fading. |
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Read the following extract and do the given activities:
A1. Match the following:
| 'A' | 'B' | ||
| i. | Infant | a. | Act like the pard |
| ii. | Schoolboy | b. | Mewling and puking |
| iii. | Lovers | c. | Whining |
| iv. | Solider | d. | Sighing like furnace |
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 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 honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth
A2. Complete the following table:
| Stages of man | Role | Qualities/Action |
| First | ||
| Second |
A3. All the world’s stage:
a. Alliteration
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
(Choose the correct answer from the given options and explain the chosen figure of
speech)
- Talk to your friend about all the things related to ‘Seven.’
For example: Seven wonders of the world. - Pair up with your partner and name those given below all of the under:
- The seven wonders of the world .............................................
- The seven continents .............................................
- The seven colours of the rainbow .............................................
- The seven notes of the music .............................................
- The seven seas of the world .............................................
Life is often compared to many things. Write down 7 things that life can be compared to and justify the comparison. For example,
- Life is a keyboard, because if you press the right keys you have typed a good destiny.
- ........................................................
- ........................................................
- ........................................................
- ........................................................
- ........................................................
- ........................................................
Match the approximate ages with the stages.
| No. | Age-group | Stages | |
| 1 | Birth to 2 years | a | teenage/adolescence |
| 2 | 3 years to 12 years | b | old age/second childhood |
| 3 | 13 years to 17 years | c | middle-age |
| 4 | 18 years to about 44 years | d | babyhood/infancy |
| 5 | About 45 years to 60 years | e | senior citizen/elderly person |
| 6 | 65 years up to 75 to 80 years | f | adulthood |
| 7 | Above 80 years | g | childhood |
Read the words in given table. Match them with what they signify.
| Stage | Birth |
| Characters | Situations/Incidents |
| Script | Story of Life |
| Dialogues | Death |
| Entry | Conversation |
| Exit | Roles played by human |
| beings | |
| Life |
Think and write on your own.
What is the theme/central idea of this poem?
Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in a paragraph format.
You will notice that there is no Rhyme-scheme in the poem. It appears similar to the poem 1.1 ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Tagore.
However Tagore’s poem has no steady rhythm/meter either it is called Free Verse. Shakespeare uses lines with a steady rhythm of 5 beats in each. It is termed as Blank Verse. (No rhyme-scheme but uniformity in rhythm)
Copy the lines from “Ánd all the men and women merely players” to “sudden and quick in quarrel”. Put a stress mark on each of the syllables stressed in the lines as for example, And all the men and women merely players;
Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format:
|
All the World’s a Stage All the world’s a stage, - William Shakespeare |
Points:
- The title and the poet of the poem (01)
- Rhyme scheme (01)
- Figures of speech (01)
- Central Idea/Theme (02)
(A1) Identify the stages in man’s life from the given description and complete the table: (2)
| Actions | Stage | |
| i. | Full of strange oaths | _________ |
| ii. | Creeping like a snail | _________ |
| iii. | Sighing like furnace | _________ |
| iv. | Having fair round belly | _________ |
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All the World’s a Stage
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;
And 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 lined,
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 saved, 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.
|
(A2) Write down the similarities between the first and the 7th (last) stage of man’s life: (2)
(A3) Choose the correct alternative to identify the figure of speech used in the following line: (1)
All the world’s a stage...
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Alliteration
