ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The seventh and final stage is extreme old age or a second childhood. Like babies very old men are dependent on others and have no teeth. The old man loses his memory, hearing and control of his senses before dying.

Detailed explanation-2: -What are the seven stage of man? As the song bio says, the seven stages are the helpless infant, the whining schoolboy, the emotional lover, the devoted soldier, the wise judge, the old man still in control of his faculties, and the extremely aged, returned to a second state of helplessness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare presents a philosophical reflection of life in “All the world’s a stage.” He exhibits each stage undergone by a man, during his course of a life time. The seven stages of encompass infancy, childhood, boyhood, adulthood, middle age, old age, second childhood.

Detailed explanation-4: -Infancy. Schoolboy. Teenager. Young man. Middle aged. Old aged. Dotage & death.