Comments on The Writer Today: "A Dream Within A Dream"

@Randi I did not know Poe wrote poetry. My daughte...

2009-10-16T20:29:31.528-04:00

@Randi
I did not know Poe wrote poetry. My daughter writes too, mostly poetry.

@Nisro Thank you for visiting my blog and your ver...

2009-10-16T20:26:57.427-04:00

@Nisro
Thank you for visiting my blog and your very insightful comment.

This is beautiful. I would never have expected it ...

2009-10-16T19:14:39.334-04:00

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?

I will share my 14 year old daughter's interpr...

2009-10-16T13:57:39.648-04:00

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."

I so love this poem ever since I read it few years...

2009-10-15T22:21:51.862-04:00

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.