Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
The seven ages
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4. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
5. Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
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7. The infancy is the first
stage. The child is under
the responsibility of the
nurse. It cries and vomits
every time
8. As in the common picture, the
boy of this age wants to enjoy
freedom, and school represents
a kind of bondage. So the boy
displays reluctance to go to
school.
9. The youth feigns the passion
of love. He addresses his
composition to his mistress,
who might exist in his
imagination.
10. Jacques notes that a soldier
swears outlandish oaths, wears
a rough and shaggy beard,
sensitive in matters of honour;
and is apt to pick a quarrel and
risk his life for the sake of
fleeting fame.
11. It is a satire on the
Elizabethan Justices of the
Peace. It was a custom to
present the judges with
capons, to secure the
goodwill and favour.
12. The old man is compared to the
pantaloons on the Italian stage--a
man who goes about in slippers,
wearing glasses, and a pocket on
his side. His youthful breeches are
too much wide for his withered
legs.
13. This is the winter season of
human life. The man is now in
his second childhood with lost
teeth, vision and taste-buds.
He gets prepared for the world
of oblivion.
14. A simile is a comparison between two unlike things
that have something in common. A simile always uses
the words like or as to make a comparison.
E.g.: Creeping like snail.
A metaphor is a figure of speech comparing two
unlike things that have something in common. In this,
the comparison is made without the use of like or as.
E.g.: Seeking the bubble reputation.
