A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Take 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?
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I kinda enjoyed the poem but at the same time i did not really enjoy it because it made me feel somewhat sad and weak in a way. One part i did enjoy is "you are not wrong, Who deem that my days have been a dream;" I enjoyed it because it feels like he is telling the other person not to doubt them selves that they are right and the other person was wrong. In a way i think he making the other person feel better about what they said. the part that makes me sad is " and in parting from you now" i feel like he's saying he is parting from a loved one.
Maria -
ReplyDeleteIt's good that you bring up the idea of doubt in your response to this poem. You're right that the speaker reassures the imagined audience ("you") that everything might have been a dream within a dream. This reassurance of doubt seems like a double doubt! The idea that nothing of this experience was real or permanent seems quite sad.
I liked how you expressed what you felt and why. It shows everyone that you understood the poem and everything. I liked it :))
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