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Which line refers to the meaninglessness of life?

"All our yesterdays have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death."
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to day," "Out, out, brief candle!"
"full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing."

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Answer:

"All our yesterdays have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death."

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User Trilok M
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The correct answer is "Out, out, brief candle!" "full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing."

The author compares human life to a candle, burning fast, and soon to be extinguished. As a candle, human life is “brief” and “full of sound and fury”. The poet wants to express how humans, pointlessly, often live an existence full of greed, fury, and violence “signifying nothing”, in other words, meaningless.


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