why does the poet refer to men and women are mearly players ?explain with reference to seven ages
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"All the world's a stage" is the poem by William Shakespeare. The title of the poem is quoted from the play 'As You Like It." In the poem, Shakespeare mentions that "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely its players." Shakespeare describes the seven stages of life.
The first stage described by Shakespeare is of an infant, as the infant grows it becomes a school going child and then a sighing lover. Further, the lover enters the stage of a temperamental soldier and becomes wise and justice. Then the man enters the second last stage of becoming old and finally the last stage of life wherein, the condition of human becomes bad and miserable. As he grows old he again becomes and acts like a child.
Therefore, through these stages of life Shakespeare describes men and women to be merely players in the play of life.