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06/02/2021 6:53 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
………………… The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered Pantaloon
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side.
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes, And whistles in his sound
(а) What does the phrase ‘shrunk shank’ in this stanza mean?
(b) How is the voice of a man at this stage?
(c) What stage of a man’s life is referred to in these lines?
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06/02/2021 6:54 pm
(а) It means that his legs become weak and thin.
(b) The voice of a man at this stage becomes shrill like that of a child.
(c) It is the sixth stage of man’s life.