A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan 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?


i was asked to analyze this poem but im not sure if there is any irony or not. HELP PLZZZZZ

There is irony of course. Just in the title, how can one know what truth lies in a dream, if it lies within a dream?

Les

thank you sooooo much!

Les, did you mean to make a pun of 'lies'? It's not a word that appears in the poem.



Post Edited (01-19-05 07:00)