The Four Ages Of Man: 03 - Youth Comments

To Masques, to Plays, to Taverns still I move; And in a word, if what I am you'd hear, Seek out a British, bruitish Cavalier. Such wretch, such monster am I; but yet more I want a heart all this for to deplore. Thus, thus alas! I have mispent my time, .. as usual a fabulous poem. tony

Anne Bradstreet (born in 1612, namely 4 years before Shakespeare's death -1616) surely knew William Shakeaspeare's works quite well.. but in this poem she doesn't refer to the ''7 ages'' of men, as in Shakespeare's As You Like It (the monologue 'All the world's a stage' by Jaques in Act II Scene VII) . There, Jaques compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues 7 stages of a man's life.