Question

Significance of the title of the poem Seven Ages

Answer 1

the title refers with each stage having its own qualities and characteristics.Here, the poet has used first stage as infant,second as schoolboy, third as lover, fourth as solder ,fifth as judge, sixth stage as old man and lastly seventh stage asenile old man .

Answer 2

Answer:

Human life has been compared by the poet to a stage of theatre where actors , appear, enact their roles and quit. ‘Entrances’ here signify human births and ‘exits’ deaths. Human beings take birth, play their parts and die.