describe the seven stages of life in the poem THE SEVEN AGES
bye William Shakesphere.
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As the song bio says, the seven stages are the helpless infant, the whining schoolboy, the emotional lover, the devoted soldier, the wise judge, the old man still in control of his faculties, and the extremely aged, returned to a second state of helplessness.
We might note that this monologue follows the ancient order of the planetary spheres. Each of the roles played by man at some age corresponds to a planetary personality, beginning with the Moon.
This order is determined by orbital period, from shorter to longer: Moon (the mewling infant in Nurse’s arms), Mercury (the schoolboy), Venus (the lover), Mars (the soldier), Jupiter (the round-bellied justice), Saturn (the old man).
Absent this list is the Sun, which in terms of orbital period falls between Venus and Mars. On a related note, the Seventh Age, the dissolution in which all characteristics are lost, has no planet.
In the old planetary cosmology, the sphere beyond Saturn was the divine realm, the realm of the stars. It’s tempting, given this, to identify the Seventh Age with the Sun, in whose brightness the specific qualities of the light of an individual candle (metaphorically, the qualities of the individual self) are completely lost… “sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
We might note that this monologue follows the ancient order of the planetary spheres. Each of the roles played by man at some age corresponds to a planetary personality, beginning with the Moon.
This order is determined by orbital period, from shorter to longer: Moon (the mewling infant in Nurse’s arms), Mercury (the schoolboy), Venus (the lover), Mars (the soldier), Jupiter (the round-bellied justice), Saturn (the old man).
Absent this list is the Sun, which in terms of orbital period falls between Venus and Mars. On a related note, the Seventh Age, the dissolution in which all characteristics are lost, has no planet.
In the old planetary cosmology, the sphere beyond Saturn was the divine realm, the realm of the stars. It’s tempting, given this, to identify the Seventh Age with the Sun, in whose brightness the specific qualities of the light of an individual candle (metaphorically, the qualities of the individual self) are completely lost… “sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
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As the song bio says, the seven stages are the helpless infant, the whining schoolboy, the emotional lover, the devoted soldier, the wise judge, the old man still in control of his faculties, and the extremely aged, returned to a second state of helplessness.
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