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 look at it as a loss of a relationship. sometimes we have this idea (dream)in our head of what a relationshiop is and when its over we realize we were living a dream within a dream. just sometimes the relationship isnt what we thought it was. the sand representing time that keeps slipping away and no matter how hard he tries to hold it, he can never keep it or get it back. it also seems like this person is holding on to everything they can to keep that dream alive and it just isnt possible. the more the time (sand) slips away, the more tormented the person becomes because they know they are losing what is dear to them. there is torment all around (the roar, tormented shore) as it seems when we all are mourning over a love loss. i loved this poem and related to it immediatelly... it just so happened i was in a break up when i read it..of course it added fuel to the fire even though it described the pain i was going through at the time
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Great poem!
What this poem means to me is that maybe this life could be somebody else's dream..for all i know there's a greater power out there thinking about me, dreaming my life into existence. I don't know I confuse myself sometimes. But I dream within my life which could be a dream. Anybody know what i'm sayin? heheh -
he is my favorite author whom he could show dream as an unusual thing, eventhough we all know that dream is ordinary in our life. his unconsciousness brought his dream as one of dark side of him (also human).
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while we dream, we are only conscious of what is in our dream and to our mind it is real and only for that short time is it belived to be real but as soon as we wake up it was just a dream. But when the end of all of our nights comes about is the dream of life over or has another dream begun in some sort of other way?
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this is the greatest.. it moves me big time and was the only thing that helped me survive breaking up with the person i loved and will always do..
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i absolutly love this poem every word seems to capture my attention, it's just beautiful and thanks to all of the above who
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I wonder that myself at times... If I'm not really living a dream within a dream. Some of the things that happen to me seem so surreal to my existence that I wonder that... A lot of these moments happen at work. (Big surprise there...) Like the other day when I was talking to my co-worker (I was off), it seemed as if we were away from the store and that he was imparting some sacred part of himself to me... I get a lot of feelings like that.
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I only wish I could have the mindset to write beautyful things like this. I haven't really tried though. Love this poem. Talent!
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EAP does "The Matrix"? =D
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I can't say this is one of Poe's better pieces, but I'd never read it 'till now. I enjoyed it and I'm glad you posted it. Now I know where Tool got that line "dream within a dream" from. Thanks for sharing. --STP
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I have never gotten sick of reading Poes work... I love it all..
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A poem from one of our great poets, Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote some
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just a brief attempt at annalysis
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
here is a farwell, as to if this farwell is due to a death I dont know but I think not.
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
this i think is more if a personal perception of him self, he deems it himself that his 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?
is there more to lose then hope?
always questioning and in a sense quite phylisophical as the piece itself touches of phylosiphies.
Is life but a dream withing the dream?
The second stanza then moves onto time
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
The sand ofcourse is time and here he refers to how little time he has and how it seems that of that which he does continues to fall from him.
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?
How might we hold time to ourselves
save from death or other that which we would cling to?
is the pitiless wave death? or simply memories of what time was had?
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Good, but ambigous
thanx alot Trisha...your insite has really helped me form my thesis. -
i love this poem
i think it's about losing. perhaps, losing a loved one. i believed he wrote it in honor of someone. Marie? well, the thing is he's so overcome with grief that it can hardly seem real. that entire: increase the pain and you'll eventually become numb. but yes,"dream within a dream"--beyond comprehension. and he's trying to hold on to what's left of his memories and his happiness and hope but all seems to whither away. all it is is a dream within a dream...nothing more...surreal.
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The concept and the ideal of the piece is good, but, the vernacular I think lacks from his other work. It is a good piece which I think he could have written better.
He was probably sober when he wrote.
Oh and to confused girl, to me it means kind of the life we live in and out of our dreams and how they are perceived by us, but, that is my take on it, what he meant, who knows.
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I really want to know the meaning of this poem. A friend of mine sent it to me, and I have some idea of what it means, yet I'm not sure if I truly get what Poe is trying to get acrossed. Can you tell me what the poem says?
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I really want to know the meaning of this poem. A friend of mine sent it to me, and I have some idea of what it means, yet I'm not sure if I truly get what Poe is trying to get acrossed. Can you tell me what the poem says?
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says so much in only a few words, another favourite.
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This is one of my favorites of him. Not sure between 'Annabel Lee' 'The Bells' or 'To the river.' This is beautiful though.
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this is my favorite poem by Poe......it's wonderful
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i like it a lot......i like al of these poems very very good
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I understand this poem, but I don't. It seems easy to analyze, but it's not. If you can clarify the meaning of this poem for me I'd appreciate it.
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tis poem is really good poem, it's inspiring my life
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