Considering the title, the intelligent reader can understand that the poem is about a person called Hamlet.

It is clear that Hamlet is living an inner conflict, perfectly conveyed by the first line of the soliloquy: To be or not to be: that is the question.

Hamlet is speaking and he is making a reflection: it is a reflection on whether it is worth going on living or not. Hamlet is asking himself a lot of questions to evaluate the pros and cons of continuing one's existing or not. You can notice the use of "to be" and "not to be" instead of "to live" and "not to live". This choice is more effective: the verb "to be" evocates into the listener's mind a more general idea of existence and presence in this world. The playwright goes straight to the point. He explains immediately that his problem is to make a decision. Shakespeare makes an intelligent use of punctuation: the use of colon. Its function is to make clear into the listener's mind the concept that the writer wants to communicate. Hamlet has to decide whether it is nobler to go on living and suffer mental contradictions or to fight against the troubles of life and put an end to them.

The argumentations he makes is organized into a series of opposition so that the speaker can better weigh both possibilities:

He has to decide whether it is noble to go on living and suffer mental contradictions. To suffer means to bear, the different actions of fortune. Hamlet puts solutions: to live or to die (to sleep).If we consider the first option we must support the  slings and arrows of outrageous fortune(line 3).In line 4  the images of war with the word " arms" in which the choice of existence is expressed, give an impression of how violent is the struggle in Hamlet's mind is.

In line 5 he shows an another solution: to die ,it is compared to sleep .Dying is compared to sleep because when we sleep it seems as if  we were putting an end to the heart-ache(line7)and also to overcame the thousand natural shocks. The Medieval prospective in which Hamlet sees death as physical liberation from the prison of the body (line12) and earthly affliction, is countered by the doubt (line13) of the Renaissance man, concerning the after death (line11).In line 9 hamlet says that death is to be wished, death put an end of our problems, but this new condition, the liberation from the prison of the body  must give the human being a pause.

Men/ women are afraid of sleeping (dying) because they don't know what there is after death. They don't know if is better  to live the real life or  to risk to live something worse  after death than the real life. From line 15 to line 22 Hamlet begins to explain the typology of difficulty when a human want to live. Shakespeare used images of a body suffering to convey the suffering of the soul.
He said: " whips, scorns, pangs, spurns", all strikes visible on the body. With this use of the language reader feels Hamlet's state of mind. He makes a lists of the injustices and miseries belonging to human behavior and social standing:  the passing of time, unreturned love, social discrimination and political oppression. From line 20 to line 21:"when he himself..." he underlines how with an act we can put an end of these pain. From line 23 to line 27 Hamlet underlines the difficulty of choice ,to live or not to live, the fear about what we doesn't know , about something after death , " the undiscovered...returns"( line 25), we aren't able to know what there is after death because nobody come back to tells us how is this "undiscovered country" like, so we prefer to support the pain of real life. There is a periphrasis of death that is called the undiscovered country in which no traveler returns.

In  line 27 ""The conscience and the action of thinking make us cowards because we realize what is the crime without having the possibility to correct us or to make the correct choice. In lines 28-33 we can get that the kind of thought which prevents men from committing suicide isn't far from a moral conscience,  "resolution" is turned by the "pale cast of thought". Hamlet admits that "conscience does make cowards of us all". He says that when a person starts to think then loses the native hue of resolution. A person changes idea and prefers to go on living. "And lose the name of action" means that a person is unable to act.