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Blank Verse Ten Syllables. Macbeth. Quote: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Image: And all our yesterdays have lighted fools. The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! This images the way life passes as days and also they pass as a candle which burns down ending it life span. Explication These words are uttered by Macbeth after he hears of Lady Macbeth's death, in Act V, scene v, lines 16–27. Rather, life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing." One can easily understand how, with his wife dead and armies marching against him, Macbeth succumbs to such pessimism.
Approximate Word count = 689
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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