A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allen Poe Lo Fi Reading

Описание: Dive into one of Edgar Allan Poe's most haunting and philosophical works. "A Dream Within a Dream" questions the very nature of reality and the fleeting nature of time. Is our existence merely a sequence of illusions?

📜 POEM TEXT:

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?

📚 About the Poem:
Published in 1849, this poem explores themes of loss, the inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, and the helpless passage of time. The narrator struggles to hold onto "grains of sand" as they slip through his fingers, symbolizing memories or life itself slipping away.

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