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Edgar Allan Poe (19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 / Boston)
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A Dream Within A Dream
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?
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This poem is kind of confusing at first, but it is also very deep. I love how it really makes you think about its meaning.
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Poe was not just a master of the macabre, but this expression of existential angst made him an artist ahead of his times.
Another amazing poetic way of referring to the concept of a dream within a dream:
Sueña Alonso Quijano
El hombre se despierta de un incierto
sueño de alfanjes y de campo llano
y se toca la barba con la mano
y se pregunta si está herido o muerto.
¿No lo perseguirán los hechiceros
que han jurado su mal bajo la luna?
Nada. Apenas el frío. Apenas una
dolencia de sus años postrimeros.
El hidalgo fue un sueño de Cervantes
y don Quijote un sueño del hidalgo.
El doble sueño se confunde y algo
está pasando que pasó mucho antes.
Quijano duerme y sueña. Una batalla:
los mares de Lepanto y la metralla.
Jorge Luis Borges (La rosa profunda) .
Edgar Allan Poe
Pompas del mármol, negra anatomía
que ultrajan los gusanos sepulcrales,
del triunfo de la muerte los glaciales
símbolos congregó. No los temía.
Temía la sombra, la amorosa,
las comunes venturas de la gente;
no lo cegó el metal resplandeciente
ni el mármol sepulcral sino la rosa.
Como del otro lado del espejo
se entregó solitario a su complejo
destino de inventor de pesadillas.
Quizá, del otro lado de la muerte,
siga erigiendo solitario y fuerte
espléndidas y atroces maravillas.
Jorge Luis Borges (El otro, el mismo) .
Perhaps my favorite right now, excellent stuff.
One of my favourite poems, inspiring and interesting!
i made some music to that very deep poem cos it touched me deep within... anybody wanna hear it and tell me what they think? my e-mail is (heshz@yahoo.com) if anybody wanna interact
i made some music to that very deep poem cos it touched me deep within... anybody wanna hear it and tell me what they think? my e-mail is (heshz@yahoo.com) if anybody wanna interact
He can't stop time (the sands of the ocean are the sands of time, in a way that time itself is like the ocean - eternal) . The beginning is the ending of a moment (he kisses someone on the brow, perhaps his lover) , a moment he can't take back. It's both sad and true, though, but it's eloquently worded with metaphors rather than similes. There is also a refrain (Is all we see or seem / but a dream within a dream?) that is a statement at first and a question in the end. Reality has its moments where it is but a dream, but perhaps life is a dream, too (a collection of moments / dreams) .
Life is only temporary.