Mid-life: He has begun to age, "Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose" He has now attained the position he once strove for at work, has fathered children, and has a house, a mortgage, and a car. I know you know what I mean! Line 23: ‘ shrunk shank ’ : - 'to shrink' means to grow smaller, and a 'shank' is a piece of meat cut from a leg of an animal - so man's legs have grown narrower with age. No last scene yet. Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav’d, a world too wide, For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. He is completely defined by status and money. into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side. For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes. but pilgrim days of walking, singing, touching, savoring, listening ... Linda. Jubilación attire. The justice, "in fair round belly with good capon lin'd, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut" ('with good capon lin'd' meaning well-fed or stuffed on fattened chicken) The lean and slipper'd pantaloon (or foolish old man), "with spectacles on nose and pouch on side ... his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble" He peers in the mirror and realises he is no longer young. Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide. The Masque of the Red Death Symbolism. With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Into the lean and slipper'd 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. Into the lean and slipper'd 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, 160: Turning again toward childish treble, pipes: And whistles in his sound. And whistles in his sound. And yes, the nostalgia is coming in thick and fast, but not as much as the gratitude. "The [lean and] slippered pantaloon' is a quote from Shakespeare's As You Like It referring to an old man in the sixth of the seven ages of man (looking a bit like the one in the engraving below). Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” should be studied at many levels: (1) the literal level - the literal level is a study of the events that actually take place in the story; (2) an allegorical level - an allegory is a story in which the objects, characters, and events are symbolic of something grander in scale. Seven Ages of Man 6 – The Lean and Slipper’d Pantaloon. Last scene of all, ‘ lean and slipper'd pantaloon ’ : this phrase describes a thin old man. Reply.