Old Poetry Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Jaymielle

  • Last seen on Oct 30 4:15 PM 2006. Member since February 14, 2006.
  • I have 2 comments

My other items

1 - 3 of 29   Show all
  • Remembering at storywrite
  • The Flood at storywrite
    Flashes of lightning in the distance.  Silver-blue, but only in the uppermost levels of the clouds.  Ominous.  Like the flickering fires of an army, camped at ni
  • Apologies at storywrite
    The hem of her skirt brushed along the top of her shoes; its momentum kept it swinging despite her sudden stop.
    She didn't look surprised to see me.  But she rarely loo

Visitor Book

Subject:

Comments

1 - 4 of 2
  • on A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe, on October 30, 2006
    Hmm... well, this poem to me doesn't seem giddy, per se, and it seems he is struggling with a Zen attitude. In the first stanza he is unworried that hope has flown away, but in an almost manic way. Then in the second stanza he is truly despairing and certainly has not been able to separate himself from life. I heard someone say of this poem that life is like a dream because you watch it and can do nothing to change it, forces above us work it all out no matter what we do.

    The first few lines baffle me a bit, though. Why a triplet there when the rest of the lines are couplets? It seems almost clumsy, yet Poe is never clumsy.

    So if anyone can enlighten me, go for it :-)

    I also should say that I definitely agree with the infinite wisdom of those two lines "All that we see or seem/ But a dream within a dream?"

  • Cute

    He has very good set-up, going from masculine friendship to (presumably) feminine love. He plants the fire metaphor in the second stanza, to be developed in the third. And he plants words, like heart, within hearth. And personally, I love the idea of love being a home.

  • on Tutto è Sciolto by James Joyce, on December 10, 2005
    thanks

  • on Tutto è Sciolto by James Joyce, on December 9, 2005
    Does anyone know what the title means?