Question

Why is life called a 'strange eventful history' in the poem,'The Seven Ages' by William Shakespeare?

Answer 1

according to Shakespeare, life is strange and have seven different events (stages). but at the last stage (death) it becomes a history. so that is why Shakespeare called life a ‘strange eventful history’.

Answer 2

Answer:

The seven stages of life are described by William Shakespeare in his poem ‘The Seven Ages’. These are in the order of infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, mid-life, senescence, and dotage (the last scene of all and the second childishness phase of life). He said that life is a “strange eventful history” which means the journey of a human being between birth and death is full of desires, adventures, sometimes ups and downs, and significant and surprising incidents, but the end is death that makes it history.

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