The Tempest
Ephemeral Dreams: Unveiling The Tempest's Profound Message
Lyrics
Our revels now are ended.
Expresses the end of our festivities or celebrations.
These our actors,
Refers to the people participating in the events.
As I foretold you,
As previously predicted or prophesied.
Were all spirits
The participants were all ethereal beings or spirits.
And are melted
Have now disappeared or transformed.
Into air,
Vanished without a trace.
Into thin air:
Completely disappeared.
And, like the baseless fabric
Comparing the illusion to a structure without substance.
Of this vision,
The imagined creation.
The cloudcapp'd towers,
Tall towers reaching into the clouds.
The gorgeous palaces,
Magnificent and splendid palaces.
The solemn temples,
Dignified and sacred places of worship.
The great globe itself,
The entire world.
Yea,
Indeed.
All which it inherit, shall dissolve
All these things and their possessions will disintegrate.
And, like this insubstantial
Similar to the evanescence of this unreal spectacle.
Pageant faded,
Leaving behind no trace or remnants.
Leave not a rack behind.
Nothing will endure.
We are such stuff
We, as human beings, are made of such fleeting material.
As dreams are made on,
Our existence is built on dreams and imagination.
And our little life
Reiteration of the ephemeral nature of life.
Is rounded with a sleep.
Symbolizes the completion or rounding off of life with sleep.
And our little life
Repetition for emphasis on life's transience.
Is rounded with a sleep.
-And our little life
-Is rounded with a sleep.
Reiteration of life's completion through the metaphor of sleep.
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