I recently came across this poem and I really liked it. Please share your thoughts and/or feelings about its meaning.
A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allen Poe
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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5 comments:
I so love this poem ever since I read it few years back...I used to memorize it by heart. So touching and seem to summarize the essence of life in many ways. How life consists from one fleeting moment following the next!! How it all seems at times so unreal, so fragile and short just like a dream that we migt be awakened from at any moment. Thank you for sharing this.
I will share my 14 year old daughter's interpretation of this poem:
"In the first 5 lines he is declaring that people who view their days to dreams aren't wrong. In the next six lines he is asking if hope is gone even less if you lost it. In the next stanza he is sorrowfully weeping by the shore and is wondering why the sand is falling through his fingers and into the water as if he was comparing the sand to a loved one and comparing it to losing someone. In the next six lines he's asking himself why he can't save them. Wondering if he held on tighter would it still be there. Then finally asking if everything we see is a dream in a dream."
This is beautiful. I would never have expected it from Poe. I was amazed at the poetic interpretation that came out of a 14-year old! You've got a wise girl on your hands. Is she a writer like her mother?
@Nisro
Thank you for visiting my blog and your very insightful comment.
@Randi
I did not know Poe wrote poetry. My daughter writes too, mostly poetry.
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