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The speech reveals Macbeth's feelings of how his life, once full of promise, has deteriorated into one of regret and uselessness.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
"Tale" reminds us of the "syllable" metaphor. The "T's" in tale, told, and idiot sound like someone spitting disgustedly. "Sound and fury" reflect Macbeth's feelings of how purposeless life is. The placement of "nothing" represents the value Macbeth knows his life will have.
a poor player that struts and frets
his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more
"Poor player" (alliteration) is a bad actor, and the consonance of "struts and frets" lets us see how jumpy and unsure he is. "Stage" is another metaphor for life, and his "hour" reaffirms how brief life is. "Heard no more" repeats the idea of meaninglessness. The imagery of this buffoon on stage lets us see how pathetic he is.
Life's but a walking shadow
Shift from the path of life metaphor to metaphors showing how empty life is. Here, the "walking shadow" shows how life has little substance; it is just a shadow.
Alliteration, repetition, polysyndeton draws attention to the drudgery of life
Personification and word choice. Not runs or prances or strolls but "creeps." The connotation is of something moving sneakily, stealthily, slowly.
alliteration, time motif, word choice -- both show the slow but constant and unstoppable march toward the end of life. The word "petty" has the denotation of small or trivial.
to the last syllable of recorded time,