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प्रश्न
Read the poem carefully and complete the following table.
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
उत्तर
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
| 1 | infant | 1. frightened |
| 2. crying, puking | ||
| 2 | schoolboy | 1. unhappy |
| 2. whining, creeping unwillingly to school | ||
| 3 | lover | 1. woeful |
| 2. sighing, singing sad ballads | ||
| 4 | soldier | 1. jealous in honour, ambitious |
| 2. quarreling, facing danger | ||
| 5 | adult man | 1. fat, serious and wise |
| 2. giving advice | ||
| 6 | middle-aged man | 1. thin and shrunken |
| 2. talking in a shrill-voice | ||
| 7 | very old man | 1. senile, child-like |
| 2. oblivious to his surroundings |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Match the approximate ages with the stages.
| No | Age-group | Stages | |
| 1 | Birth to 2 years | a | teenage/adolescence |
| 2 | 3 years to 12 years | b | old age/second childhood |
| 3 | 13 years to 17 years | c | middle - age |
| 4 |
18 years to about 44 years |
d | babyhood/infancy |
| 5 |
About 45 years to 60 years |
e | senior citizen/elderly person |
| 6 |
65 years up to 75 to 80 years |
f | adulthood |
| 7 |
Above 80 years |
g | childhood |
Read the words in given clouds. Match them with what they signify.
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) Stage | 1. Birth |
| (b) Characters | 2. Situations/Incidents |
| (c) Script | 3. Story of Life |
| (d) Dialogues | 4. Death |
| (e) Entry | 5. Conversation |
| (f) Exit | 6. Roles played by human beings |
| 7. Life |
Pick out lines that contain Imagery (a picture created in the mind by using words) of the following people.
- School boy - _____________
(2nd stage) - _____________ - Soldier - ___________
(4th stage) - _________ - Judge - ___________
(5th stage) - ___________ - Senior citizen - ___________
(6th stage) - ____________
Think and write on your own.
What is the theme/central idea of this poem?
Think and write on your own.
The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy?
Read the summary of the play ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare using the Internet. Find out which character has narrated the above poem and on what occasion. Also, make a list of all the characters of the play.
Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in paragraph format.
You will notice that there is no Rhyme-scheme in the poem. It appears similar to the poem 1.1 ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Tagore.
However, Tagore’s poem has no steady rhythm/meter either it is called Free Verse. Shakespeare uses lines with a steady rhythm of 5 beats in each. It is termed as Blank Verse. (No rhyme-scheme but uniformity in rhythm) Copy the lines from “Ánd all the men and women merely players” to “sudden and quick in quarrel”. Put a stress mark on each of the syllables stressed in the lines as - for example, And all the men and women merely players;
Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format:
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All the World’s a Stage All the world’s a stage, - William Shakespeare |
Points:
- The title and the poet of the poem (01)
- Rhyme scheme (01)
- Figures of speech (01)
- Central Idea/Theme (02)
(A1) Identify the stages in man’s life from the given description and complete the table: (2)
| Actions | Stage | |
| i. | Full of strange oaths | _________ |
| ii. | Creeping like a snail | _________ |
| iii. | Sighing like furnace | _________ |
| iv. | Having fair round belly | _________ |
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All the World’s a Stage
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;
And then the whining school-boy, 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 honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
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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(A2) Write down the similarities between the first and the 7th (last) stage of man’s life: (2)
(A3) Choose the correct alternative to identify the figure of speech used in the following line: (1)
All the world’s a stage...
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Alliteration
