精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Lesson Eight1. Discuss the metaphor of drama used by Cowley to describe the role of an old person.The author compares the old life to a drama, elderly people play a new role in it that must be improvised. That is because old age gives nobody any mental preparation to get oneself ready for it. Whats more, the infirmities are likened to a prompter, reminding them of the fact that they are old and should behave like old people. This metaphor vividly shows the state of gett
