"They have their entrances and their exits". When actors come onto the stage so the audience can see them, it is called an entrance; when they leave the stage it is an exit. (We use the same words to describe a way in and a way out as well). Jaques is comparing the life of a person to a performance by an actor ("All the men and women merely players"), and as an actor has an entrance onto the stage, so people have an entrance into their lives: they are born. Just as an actor has an exit, so do people: they die.
entrances means the birth taken on the earth and exits means dying after taking birth.
Hose were the tight fitting woollen "trousers" worn in Elizabethan times. They were held up at the top by being tied to the bottom of the doublet (jacket). In the speech Shakespeare is saying that the old man in the sixth age whose well-preserved hose "his youthful hose" from his well fed earlier life "with fair round belly" would be too big for his spindly old legs.
He swears a lot. He has a beard. He is quarrelsome. He is reckless.
"creeping like snail", "sighing like furnace", and "bearded like the pard".
picture of the seven ages by staga by stage
entrances means the birth taken on the earth and exits means dying after taking birth.
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Hose were the tight fitting woollen "trousers" worn in Elizabethan times. They were held up at the top by being tied to the bottom of the doublet (jacket). In the speech Shakespeare is saying that the old man in the sixth age whose well-preserved hose "his youthful hose" from his well fed earlier life "with fair round belly" would be too big for his spindly old legs.
He swears a lot. He has a beard. He is quarrelsome. He is reckless.
It's not a poem, it's a speech. And can't you imagine what the man looks like during the seven stages of his life?
"Mewling and puking" comes to mind.
"creeping like snail", "sighing like furnace", and "bearded like the pard".
The alliteration words in the "Seven Ages of Man" speech by William Shakespeare include "mewling and puking" and "whining schoolboy." These are examples of alliteration, which is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
In the "Seven Ages of Man" speech by William Shakespeare, the personification can be seen in the metaphorical descriptions of each stage of life as a different act in a play. Each age is personified as a character entering and exiting the stage of life. Additionally, the stages themselves are personified as they are given human-like qualities and actions.
In the words "The seven ages of man" there are seven syllables.
picture of the seven ages by staga by stage
The whole speech is one big extended metaphor. "All the world's a stage . . .", well like a stage anyway. Which is why this is a metaphor.