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A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
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A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe |
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JingleBear Member
since 2003-05-08
Posts 76Pennsylvania, USA |
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? Anyone have any interpertations on this? |
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gourdmad Member
since 2003-12-01
Posts 136Upper Ohio Valley |
Interpretation : Someone got a homework assignment and wants a quick out. They dream someone will figure it all out and hand it to them, what is the "best" interpretation, but that dream, as well as the possibility of spending their precious time on the interpretation themselves, slips away like time and tide, and they are left with nothing at the due date but lament. |
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JingleBear Member
since 2003-05-08
Posts 76Pennsylvania, USA |
Hmm.. i'm not sure if I agree with that interpertation... i'm just a stupid little kid who tried to interpert it, and am trying to find the deeper meaning. But if you don't want to help, don't, just don't be rude about it |
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Greeneyes  
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
Jingle Bear if you are looking for help with this one the internet is a great place to start, or even the library..... ~*~ In your light I learn how to love In your beauty how to make poems You dance inside my chest where no one sees you and that sight becomes art [This message has been edited by Greeneyes (01-14-2004 12:01 AM).] |
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cynicsRus Senior Member
since 2003-06-06
Posts 591So Cal So Cool! |
quote: I’m sure no one here would presume to think of you as stupid. Lazy? Yes--but not stupid. Sid @ www.cynicsRus.com |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
There aren't any copyright issues here, it's old enough to be in the public domain, but everybody's right that it doesn't belong here. Um, nevertheless, Jinglebear, what do you think it means or rather what does the poem do? Interpretation begins at home. |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
What, no suggestions from anyone on how the poem might be improved? I should think this poem, more than most by Poe, would be a springboard to some fairly useful discussion. If you didn't know the author was long dead and uninterested in what you had to say, what would you have to say?  |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Frankly, I had a little difficulty with the following lines and the flow.... "O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp?" |
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gourdmad Member
since 2003-12-01
Posts 136Upper Ohio Valley |
Did I come off as rude? Sorry, I was going for clever, disguising my interpretation of the poem as a response to the act of posting of the poem. How the pattern described in the poem is an archetypical one, that we see echoed in our own lives. Guess I failed at that. And it does seem like the words clasp and grasp have been inverted. |
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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
let's see, get rid of the rhyme, and what is with all the cliche's? good enjambent at times... and capitalizing the first letter of every line, give me a break... overuse of puncuation just for starters... seriously, I found an old poetry book which included a view of the critics during his time period and the comment was "there is little to glean from his meager output of poetic offerings." |
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gourdmad Member
since 2003-12-01
Posts 136Upper Ohio Valley |
Tim - LOL. Very funny - the cliches of critiquing, including the knock on cliches, the most critiqued and cliched of critiquing cliches. Tho if Poe said it first, it would have to be an ex post facto cliche. |
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