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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?
Edgar Allan Poe
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Wilhelm Achim
(10/26/2009 7:33:00 PM) |
i guess the golden sand is describing poe's lost loves, (mother, foster mother, virginia)
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Heather Owens
(10/4/2009 1:02:00 AM) |
After I read it, I wanted to cry. No matter how hard you try, you can not hold onto the sand. Reality just slips away, and you are left wondering if it was just a dream within a dream.
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Herman Chiu
(8/28/2009 5:30:00 PM) |
This is a real masterpiece - one of Poe's very best. However, I would personally not be saddened at the loss of the sand. The second stanza has too strong a take for me. The first stanza is absolutely wonderful.
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Joe Bagassed
(7/29/2009 2:28:00 AM) |
what is it supposed to mean
I need to do an analysis of it?
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Dylan Oppedahl
(7/7/2009 9:59:00 PM) |
the part about the sand is perfect. it shows you can never seem to save a single grain
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Adam Parker
(6/19/2009 4:44:00 PM) |
I see it more of life as the dream he's describing. That life is like a dream in so many ways, that it can be seen, and experienced like one.
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Tyler Sta
(6/1/2009 2:58:00 PM) |
grammar & punctuation is not correct and 'the' is 'thy' form what I recall from 5th grade. I recited this in front of an audience of my classmates, it was a big hit! As an author, I keep myself busy attempting Poe's greatness in poetry. Of course, that's impossible to attain.
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