1. A Dream Within a Dream By Joshua Y Poetry Presentation
Edgar Allan Poe ( )
By Joshua Y

2. Background Music
Blu profondo
by Roberto Jonata

3. Introduction
Source: The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. I: Poems (Harvard University Press, 1969)
Edgar Allan Poe
－American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

4. A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849
STANZA 1
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.
STANZA 2
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?

5. Form––Free verse
Structure of Poem: Two stanzas
The two stanzas are of different lengths (the first is lines, the second is 13 lines)
Rhyme Scheme: a,a,a,b,b ,c,c,d,d,b,b e,e,f,f,g,g,g,h,h,i,i,b,b.

6. Rhyme Scheme: a,a,a,b,b ,c,c,d,d,b,b e,e,f,f,g,g,g,h,h,i,i,b,b.
STANZA 1
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.
STANZA 2
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?

7. Poetic Techniques and devices
Repetition
Assonance
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
While I weep–while I weep
In a night or in a day In a vision or in none
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
O God! can I not save

8. Poetic Techniques and devices
Alliteration
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
And I hold within my hand
Grains of golden sand–
While I weep–while I weep
Personification
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore
Imagery
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none

9. Meaning of the Poem
“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!”
The ‘Golden sand’ and the ‘Grains’ like the things that happened in our life, which means those are insubstantial as a dream, easy come, easy go.
For this world the life is like a tiny sand, but how you see the world that is how big dream you have.

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