english_9_lm_draft

Task 9
For SIGNIFICANT HUMAN EXPERIENCES
Reading a poem paves the way to making meaning in life. It allows you to
share certain experiences. Oftentimes, you find you share something in common
with that experience that makes the poem meaningful. This is when you think back
and recall a time when you have much in common with the same experience than
what you originally thought. The poem speaks to you as you explore the human
condition.
Now, find out how the poem “The SEVEN AGES OF MAN” from the
comedy “AS YOU LIKE IT” by William Shakespeare provides cherished pieces of
information about the human condition.
Listen to your teacher read the poem.
As you listen to your teacher read the poem, read it silently and watch out for
words which are difficult for you to understand. List them in your vocabulary
notebook and have them as entries in your word bank.
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN
(from: “AS YOU LIKE IT” ) by: William Shakespeare
DRAFT
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women are merely players;
They have their exits and entrances,
5
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
April
And then the
10,
whining school boy, with
2014
his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
And one man in his time plays many parts
10
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
15
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good caper lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of white saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
20
Into the lean and ,slippered pantaloons,
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
25
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.
7