Question

compare the Parallelism to the journey of the life in the poem The Brook and the Seven ages

Answer 1

In the 'Seven Ages' Shakespeare has written about the stages in a man's life. Right from the time he is born till he dies, he goes through seven stages. Although he talks about man's journey through this world, he has not compared it with anything else. The poem 'The Brook' on the other hand compares the journey of man's life to the journey of a brook that flows to meet its destination. Man lives his life only to meet death in the end and so does the brook travel through ups and downs to meet the river.