Why according to Shakespeare outlined the ravateo of time?
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The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare was acutely aware of our passage through time. This theme interpenetrates virtually all of his work. In Sonnet 60 he writes: “Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore/So do our minutes hasten to their end.” In Sonnet 64 he writes: “When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d/The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age…” In MacBeth (V, v, 19), he has his eponymous hero saying: “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/To the last syllable of recorded time;/And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/The way to dusty death.” But it is in his play As You Like It (II, VII, 139-166), that Shakespeare reaches his height in articulating a vision of the human life cycle, when the melancholy Jacques delivers one of the most famous speeches in western literature:
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