Question

What is the significance of the exit and antrance in the seven ages?

Answer 1

‘Exists’ and ‘entrances’ are metaphors that signify the ‘death’ and ‘birth’ of men and women respectively. In this poem Shakespeare has compared the world to ‘a stage’. He calls all the men and women ‘players’ (actors). Their entrance is their ‘birth’, and their exist is their ‘death’.

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.