(19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 / Boston)

poet Edgar Allan Poe
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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-
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  • Patricia Grantham (1/11/2013 6:07:00 AM)

    So lovely and very poetic. Excellent!

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  • Stavroula Kutsukos (1/6/2013 12:06:00 AM)

    Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite poets. He inspired me to begin writing poems. This is one of my favorite poems by him.

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  • Aritra Chatterjee (1/4/2013 11:54:00 AM)

    @tiju martin...hi! i cannot ensure the authenticity of the explanation, but still i am going for it...hopefully it'll help you as much as it would to me.
    the preceding lines talk about the situation being a smaller dream in the huge canvas of life which itself is a dream. so in your extracted portion, the poet inquires, if the hope is lost or dismantled then is it gone forever...in other words, if the mere loss of a hope would leave us hopeless forever.

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  • Alex Roth (1/3/2013 9:38:00 AM)

    Mr. Martin, hope flying away describes the poet's dreams of peace and happiness decreasing with each passing day because he can't travel back in time. Also, this quatrain describes to the reader how memories fade from the mind.

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  • Tiju Martin (1/3/2013 6:21:00 AM)

    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?

    can any help me in understanding the above?

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  • Christian James Castro (12/27/2012 9:28:00 AM)

    edgar allan poe you're the one!
    @ Kevin Murphy wow! nice one, a future successor of Allan Poe

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  • Charity Duplechan (12/25/2012 1:35:00 PM)

    Wow Kevin Murphey that was a good one! Do you write poems?

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  • Younggin Wang (12/9/2012 1:15:00 AM)

    allan poe is always blue and beatiful

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  • Ibrahim Loul (11/24/2012 4:02:00 AM)

    While I weep while i weep! . Amazing!

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  • Shiela Marie Anunciacion (11/17/2012 4:40:00 AM)

    One of my favorite author. I always use his works for declamations and such!

    What I saw in this poem is how hurt the guy to be parted from the one he loved. His sorrow that whatever they have has now come to an end, and even if he tries to catch and keep even the smallest fragment of memory about their time together... it's as if it slowly is fading and reality is invading... that maybe, whatever they have are just but lies...

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