Ages of man

In William Shakespeare, As You Like It, it is about the stages of life, where we are young until we are grow older and die. As we read through the speech, we easily can understand the intended meaning that the writer tries to convey. The usage of tone of the words is cynical. For example, by the end of the speech ‘sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything’ it is cynical.

In William Butler Yeats, The Four Ages of Man, the poem is also about the stages of life. I hardly try to understand what the poetry tries to express his message to the reader. I have to read many times to understand the underlying meaning. ‘He with body waged a fight, but body won, it walks upright’ it is represent a new life of innocent child (a baby) who is later trying to adapt the new environment and faced the evil world.

The comparison of both As You Like It and The Four Ages of Man had been mentioned earlier. I would like to prefer As You Like It in my reading as it is easy to understand and captured my attention to read further.