All the World's a Stage

Classification and Division:

What are the ages of man?

What characterizes each?

Imagery

Infant

"Mewling and puking"

Boy

"Shining morning face"

"creeping like a snail"

Lover/Young man

"Sighing like a furnance"

"woeful ballad"

"Made to his mistress' eyebrow" - an allusion to the poetry of the time

Solider/Late teens, early twenties

"Bearded like a pard [leopard]"

"Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel"

"Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth"

Justice/Successful man

"fair round belly"

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"with good capon lined"

capon: a fowl raised for meat

"beard of formal cut"

"wise saws"

saws: a saying, a proverb

"modern instances"

new ways of looking at things

Sixth age/retirement

"lean and slipper'd pantaloon"

"spectacles on nose"

"youthful hose . . . a world too wide"

youthful hose: clothing of youth

"shrunk shank"

shank: thigh

"childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound"

Last scene/infirm

"second childishness"

"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything"

sans: without