Stages of Human Life

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"The stages of human life are the subject of William Shakespeare's "The Seven Ages of Man" and Anne Sexton's "Courage." Both poets describe a man's progress from infancy to old age and death, but they do so in very different ways and produce different effects. Shakespeare treats the life of a man in his poem as an example of universal (male) experience of life. Sexton, on the other hand, manages to combine the universal experience with a stronger sense of the variety of individual experience.
In Shakespeare's poem the predominant metaphor is life as "a stage / And all the men and women merely players." Life is divided into seven phases, or acts, and they are successively described in terms of their appropriate physical changes and preoccupations until, finally, old age reduces this universal man.."

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