A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan - PowerPoint Presentation

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A Dream Within a Dream

Edgar Allan

Poe (1809-1849)

By Joshua Y

Poetry PresentationSlide2

Background Music

Blu profondo

by Roberto JonataSlide3

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.Slide4

A Dream Within a Dream

Edgar Allan Poe

1809-1849 STANZA 1Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow —You are not wrong, who deemThat 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?Slide5

Form––Free verse

Structure of Poem: Two stanzas The two stanzas are of different lengths (the first is

11 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.Slide6

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 1Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me

avow —You are not wrong, who deemThat 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

seemIs 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

?Slide7

Poetic Techniques

and devicesRepetitionIn 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

Assonance

You

are not wrong, who d

ee

m

That my d

a

ys have been

a

dr

ea

m;

All that we s

ee

or s

ee

m

Is but a dr

ea

m within a dr

ea

m.

Wh

i

le

I w

ee

p–wh

i

le I

weepSlide8

Poetic Techniques

and devicesAlliteration You are not wrong, who

deemThat my days have been a

d

ream;

All that we

s

ee or

s

eem

Is but a

d

ream within a

d

ream.

And

I

h

old

within my

h

and

G

rains of

g

olden

sand–

While I weep–while I weep

PersonificationI stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore

Imagery

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in noneSlide9

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.Slide10

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