Development of human life.

After reading the poem “Ages of man” by William Butler Yeats and Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, and the riddle in “Oedipus Rex”, I think that the three stories is talking about human life. We human beings need to pass through different stages in our life and each stage have their own exciting and interesting stories.

In William Shakespeare's “As You Like It”, spoken by the melancholy Jaques. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, school-boy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". Shakespeare means that the world is nothing but a theatrical stage where we humans are actors. From our birth we enter the stage and keep on acting true to our age, until old age when we act the last scene. It is one of Shakespeare's most frequently-quoted passages.

On the other hand, in the poem of William Butler Yeats, “The Four Ages of Man” Yeats describes that human’s life is a process that we need to pass through. It is a tough process as we human have to fight to pass through these four stages. The first stage is infancy. In this stage we are dependent on others and needs to be constantly attended to the stage we can walk. While when we go into childhood, this is the stage that he begins to go to school and know everything about life. This is the times they get to know what love is and understand all remorseful due to some reason or other especially love and lost. Then it comes to adulthood stage, he has acquired wisdom through the many experiences he has had in life. He has reached a stage where he has gained prosperity and social status. He becomes very attentive of his looks and begins to enjoy the finer things of life. But when times come, he begins to lose his charm — both physical and mental. He loses his firmness and assertiveness, and shrinks in stature and personality and no matter how firm he is, God will take away his life and he will die.

Oedipus Rex talks about stages of life as well. There is only three stages in the story by the Sphynx. He talk about what goes first on four legs, then on two, and then on three. The first stage is describes about a baby that crawl on the floor. Then it move to a adult that can we use 2 leg to support the body to walk on the road while when we are old, we may need a stick to help us to walk for balance to avoid to fall.

The three poem talk about the stages of human being and I think it is accurate for all the 3 writers because these are all our stages that we need to pass through. After all, I do support what William Shakespeare's “As You Like It” as I think we human being must gone through all these details in the process of our life.