CRITICAL APPRECIATIOn of Youth N Age PDF
CRITICAL APPRECIATIOn of Youth N Age PDF
CRITICAL APPRECIATIOn of Youth N Age PDF
Bacon concludes that both Youth and Age have their own merits and demerits,
each stage of life has its fruits and follies so the best approach would be to utilize
the energies and potential of that age. Bacon stresses that both youth and age are
like lock and key to unlock the door to success. If they work together,
collaborate with each other, and retrieve each other’s mistakes. Old people
share their wisdom, authority and young people can learn through their
experience and reach success in no time. Young people give their fresh
adventurous ideas, and they will make great success together.
This essay is Bacon’s masterpiece as it aptly compares Youth and Age in a side-
by-side manner. The distinct style of Bacon is reflected through the brevity and
terseness of expression, his skillful use of Latin quotations, classical allusions
and epigrammatic sentences to enrich the reader with lasting wisdom.
In the essay "Of Youth and Age,” Prof.Vickers notes in the introduction to the
Oxford World's Classics 1999 edition of "The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and
Moral" that Bacon:
"uses a most effective variation in tempo, now slowing down, now speeding up,
together with syntactical parallelism, in order to characterize the two opposed
stages of life."