Explination on Shakespeare?

Question

Ok I have a project due tomorrow, Monday on this poem by Shakespeare. I don't understand it please give me as much detail as you can. Here it is. HELP PLEASE!!!

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterays 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.

Thank you soooooooooooo much!!

Answer 1

This is actually a monologue from Macbeth.

In this section he has just learned that his wife has killed herself and that the soldiers who are backing Malcolm and Macduff are advancing on his castle.

He is lamenting life. He realizes that our lives are merely brief moments in time. Tomorrow always comes and there is always change. What we think of as so important today will simply be forgotten tomorrow. People that we believe are so important today will be forgotten tomorrow. Our lives are merely 'walking shadows'. We got through life and then we are gone. Our lives and in this case probably his life has been meaningless. He has killed his kinsmen; he has murdered an innocent family; he has killed his best friend and all for nothing.