A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe * Track #8 On Tamerlane and Other Poems
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A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan PoeAbout
speaker: The speaker could be someone who is heart broken, or who has lost someone.
Occasion: Spouse has died or is gone.
Audience: a therapist.
Purpose: The purpose is to tell how he feels
Tone- broken hearted, negative
Subject- heart break
fr- When I first read this poem I didn’t understand it. I...
A Dream Annotated
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed—
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream—that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro' storm and
night,
So trembled from afar—
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?