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To begin with, I will try to analyze in the line nineteen to twenty-four : that I
can see the effect of this poem is the feeling of frustration by the narrator that
is comparison between a grain of the sand and a dream. It shows that the
narrator is trying to separate sands in his hand to be one from many grains but
he is unable to do it. In order to make some torching feelings to the reader, the
feeling of hopeful can also be seen in this poem. At the beginning of the poem,
the narrator seems to feel hopeless because he feels that he is stuck in the
dream that he had and he finds that there is no way out, we can see it clearly
in the line ten and eleven, the word is all emphasized. The example of figure of
speech in this poem is the personification effect, the sand can be compared to
sand in an hourglass, and his hand can be compared to an hourglass. As the
sand passes between his fingers, time is running out. The narrator here tries to
create such a strained situation by saying, “O God! can I not save One from the
pitiless wave?” Besides, By using the adjective miserly to explain the wave,
narrator try to show the loss of an importance item, which is the one – grain of
sand symbolizes. Although he has lost an item of importance he still hopes to
be as Hyatt Waggoner that refers to the first stanza in which the narrator says,
“is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream.” At the end of the
poem, there is a statement in the form of question, in order to make the
reader guessing that there is still be a hope. The particular mood of this poem
is intense. In some sentence may feel strain as a performing of the narrator
who feels the frustration. However, because of the effect of the hopes, the
mood can also be referred as optimistic feelings. His words by saying the
phrase “Oh God!” creates suspense show in the agony of the narrator.
In addition, the diction of the title and phrase “A Dream Within A Dream” is
focused on what he is trying to prove. The sentence “While I Weep” is also
repeated two times to show the atmosphere of sadness, pessimistic and
painful of the narrator. At the same time, the exiting of feeling hopeless of the
narrator creates a feeling of depression. The narrator uses many repetitions to
create a feeling of melancholy.
The use of a strong adjective in the poem helps the reader try to create a deep
imagination of the plot in the poem into his or her head.
1. In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none
The narrator tries to stress the words in the beginning of both in the first
sentence and the second sentence. With the word “in”, when the reader
read those, they will make some loud voice to make the stressing of
those sentences.
This is the same as the previous ones above, the repetition of the two
words “oh God” makes some stress to focus more on particular
sentences which is shown that the narrator wants to get the reader to
focus attention by saying “oh God”. This means that the narrator
desperately having hopes to God.
First Stanza
Lines two and three are the from of the older fragment. In the beginning form
they really mean an ordinary farewell, which it shows there is a couple with the
kiss in line one, they suggest a final parting.
"You are not wrong, who deem..." the narrator mostly speaks to himself. Is he
complaining about wasting years? Or perhaps he is admitting to his
psychological weakness.
It continues:
The narrator almost separate ordinary feeling of hopes. Hoping to fly away "In
a night" suggests the dark, reflective (and embittered) world he inhabited
much of the time. "In a vision", in his imagination, he sees it disappear. Yet in
the cold light of day his more mundane miseries are no less real and painful.
Hope, for Poe, is the scent of a life-force that runs through all things. It has
gone and he is doomed. Or perhaps it is a human construct?
Hope is the dream within the dream of life. It calls to mind Shelley's Adonais:
Hope is a dream; life is a dream; and all Poe can see upon waking is an end to
both, oblivion.
Second Stanza
It begins:
There is no peace in Poe's life. The breakers on the shore are the desires and
expectations that torment
us endlessly.
It continues: