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“A dream within a dream”: Edgar Allan Poe; poem and analysis.
A dream within a dream (A Dream Within a Dream) is a poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), published in the March 31, 1849 edition of the Flag of Our Union newspaper.
A dream within a dreamprobably one of Edgar Allan Poe’s best poems, questions the thin line that separates dreams and reality, wondering if everything we perceive and feel is nothing more than a dream within a dream, that is, an illusion within of other.
The narrator, standing in front of the sea, takes a handful of sand and watches as the grains slide between his fingers. This image represents the different losses he suffered Edgar Allan Poeespecially that of his great love, Virginia Clemm.
The important things in life have the strength of a grain of sand that resists the wind. We cannot preserve them, any more than we can hold on to the joys and horrors of sleep. In that similarity, Edgar Allan Poe bases the philosophical structure of A dream within a dream.
Perhaps the good things in life are elusive precisely because they belong to the universe of fantasy, and they break themselves, break into countless pieces, just as dreams disappear in a sea of uncertainty when you open your eyes.
A dream within a dream.
A Dream Within a Dream, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Take this kiss on your forehead!
And, I say goodbye to you now,
There is nothing left to confess.
He who estimates is not wrong
That my days have been a dream;
Even if hope has flown
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is the game therefore smaller?
Everything we see or imagine
It’s just a dream within a dream.
I stand among the roar
From a coast tormented by waves,
And I hold in my hand
Grains of golden sand.
How few! However how they crawl
Between my fingers towards the depths,
While I cry, While I cry!
Oh God! Can’t I hold on to them
With more force?
Oh God! Can’t I save
One of the relentless tide?
Is it all we see or imagine
A dream within a dream?
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—
You are not wrong, who deem
Those 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
It 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?
It’s all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Gothic poems. I Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
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