who sighs like furnance and why?

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who sighs like furnance and why?

i am the collage student and i am not

understand the poem seven ages of man by William Shakespeare

Asked by darakhshan c #200155 on 9/14/2011 3:59 AM

Last updated by Aslan on 9/14/2011 4:15 AM

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Answered by Aslan on 9/14/2011 4:15 AM

This is said by Jaques in his famous soliloquy in Act 2. The term "sighs like a furnace" refers to the stage in a young man's life where he falls in love with a woman and sighs constantly (like a furnace) because he is so love struck,

"And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow"

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