A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream,” published in 1849, explores the difference between the real and the imaginary. Within the poem, he illustrates a human life slipping away, trickling like “sand,” and implies that our existence is insubstantial, just an abstraction of the mind.
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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?
A Dream Within A Dream Q&A
Who wrote A Dream Within A Dream's ?
A Dream Within A Dream was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
When did Edgar Allan Poe release A Dream Within A Dream?
Edgar Allan Poe released A Dream Within A Dream on Sat Mar 31 1849.
How is the title of the poem related to the author's life?
Edgar Allan Poe’s life was rife with horrors and tragedies that informed his work well unto his death at the age of 40. Perhaps, the poem is with closest relation to the death of his wife and cousin Virginia; we look at a letter he wrote to a fan, detailing this sensations in the aftermath of it:
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