The seven ages of man is not a poem. It's a speech given by the character Jaques in Act 2 the play As You Like It. The Duke has just pointed out that "This wide and universal theatre presents more...
Man's history on earth seems to be pitiful and comic. He has seven distinct stages in his life in this world which appears as characters one after the other in a play. Infant, school boy, lover,...
The man in the speech goes through these stages: Infancy: In this stage he is dependent on others and needs to be constantly attended to. Childhood: It is in this stage that he begins to go to...