A Dream Within A Dream By: Edgar Allen PoeTake this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow: You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep--while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? |
Within this poem, Poe uses figurative language to explain what is happening in his dream. Poe does this by using imagery and repetition to describe what he experiences inside his dream. Throughout the poem, Poe uses imagery to describe what he was visually seeing in his dream. In the second stanza, Poe says, “I stand amid the roar of a surf-tormented shore, and I hold within my hand grains of the golden sand.” In this part, Poe is trying explain to his audience what he is seeing by using great detail. Poe also uses repetition in this poem by saying, “O God! Can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp? O God! Can I not save one from the pitiless wave?” In this phase, Poe is asking God for his help to get out of this dream and if Poe can escape his misery at all. Throughout this poem, Edgar Allen Poe talks about what is happening to him and how he is wishing to escape from his dream. He does this by using imagery and repetition in his poem to clearly express his point of needing to get out.
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