It is not a poem, but rather a speech said by the character Jaques in the Shakespeare play As You Like It, Act 2 Scene vii. As You Like It was written around 1600 but not published until the First Folio in 1623.
All The Worlds a Stage.
Shakespeare wrote As You Like It, from which those words are quoted, around 1600.
It is neither. It is a speech, extracted from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. It is poetic, but it is not a poem since it is not intended to stand alone as a poem. It is not a sonnet--it does not rhyme as all sonnets do.Just for your info: If something is a sonnet then, believe me, it has to be a poem as well. Guaranteed.
"All the world's a stage," is modern English.
WH Auden wrote a poem called "Stop All The Clocks" - is this the one you mean? Tks, this is the poem. It is so touching.
All The Worlds a Stage.
Shakespeare wrote As You Like It, from which those words are quoted, around 1600.
It is neither. It is a speech, extracted from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. It is poetic, but it is not a poem since it is not intended to stand alone as a poem. It is not a sonnet--it does not rhyme as all sonnets do.Just for your info: If something is a sonnet then, believe me, it has to be a poem as well. Guaranteed.
It's not a poem. It's a speech from the play As You Like It. And "foregrounding" is not a helpful term when discussing speeches or poetry, because all it means is emphasis, and of course there is emphasis in all speeches and poetry.
"All the world's a stage," is modern English.
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It's a speech. If you present it, you use the words Shakespeare wrote. You do not add any topics to what is contained in the piece.
He trying to say all the worlds a stage its on big place and its quite frighten.
WH Auden wrote a poem called "Stop All The Clocks" - is this the one you mean? Tks, this is the poem. It is so touching.
all the worlds a stage has a variety of alliteration such as : shrunk shank quick in quarrel and satchel and shining
Shakespear.
'All the world's a stage' is indeed a Shakespearean quotation, but what are you asking by saying 'because you could not'?