Take thus 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 While I weep- while I weep! Oh God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? Oh God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
Rating:***** Analysis:
In this poem, "A Dream Within A Dream", the overall mood of this poem is hopelessly confused, since the speaker was very confused about how the dreams were different and the different consequences in the dreams. The overall message that I got from this poem is that never lose hope in anything. There is always hope in life and the speaker should not lose that hope that it has.
In the poem, the speaker had showed that he/she had lost the hope, which the hope had gone somewhere else. I guess the speaker was expecting to lose hope in something. In the poem, it stated, "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." In this line, the speaker was stating that it was losing hope in something that it didn't even expect of doing and it slipped away from the speaker, causing to lose it and not even bother going for it again, to regain the hope.
Another thing that the speaker stated was when the speaker stated of saving someone or something about one solitary thing. In the poem, the speaker was stating, "Oh God! can I not save/One from the pitiless wave?" The speaker was saying that why it can't be saved when it needs saving. The diction in this poem was strong, since the poet had many different meanings towards one thing and to get its message across somehow.