Dream Within A Dream Personification
A Dream within a Dream is a narrative poem that is published in 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born in Boston (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) and was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. He was famous for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. However, this poem is different from the other pieces that he has written before. It’s not mystery nor macabre, it is an elegy poem. The author wrote it to his wife to expressed the sorrow of losing her in his life.
A Dream within a Dream is written from the third person perspective as a man who feels like he is stuck into a dream within a dream. The isolation that he expresses through the poem like asking himself one of life’s biggest questions: “Is everything real?” A man who lost his way in his own dream then …show more content…
He uses personification in three ways in this poem. First, he says “Yet if hope has flown away”
Even so, we all know that hope is an abstract thing and it can’t literally fly. Next, he says that
“One from the pitiless wave?”
Despite that wave can’t pity, he personified it as life is pitying on him. Then he says
“I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,”
As torment is a feeling that people feel, it’s how they feel when so’s emotions wrack them, not when waves wrack a shore. Poe expresses that he is being tortured from the pain of losing his loved one. Another device that also uses in this poem is metaphor. The author uses metaphor when he says
“And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand–”
This is metaphoring time and lives that he can’t hold to. Furthermore, the author utilizes repetition when he says
“ O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save”
He repeats “O God” twice as to cry for help to the Lord above, the one Supreme Being, wonders if there is any hope left for
A Dream within a Dream is written from the third person perspective as a man who feels like he is stuck into a dream within a dream. The isolation that he expresses through the poem like asking himself one of life’s biggest questions: “Is everything real?” A man who lost his way in his own dream then …show more content…
He uses personification in three ways in this poem. First, he says “Yet if hope has flown away”
Even so, we all know that hope is an abstract thing and it can’t literally fly. Next, he says that
“One from the pitiless wave?”
Despite that wave can’t pity, he personified it as life is pitying on him. Then he says
“I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,”
As torment is a feeling that people feel, it’s how they feel when so’s emotions wrack them, not when waves wrack a shore. Poe expresses that he is being tortured from the pain of losing his loved one. Another device that also uses in this poem is metaphor. The author uses metaphor when he says
“And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand–”
This is metaphoring time and lives that he can’t hold to. Furthermore, the author utilizes repetition when he says
“ O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save”
He repeats “O God” twice as to cry for help to the Lord above, the one Supreme Being, wonders if there is any hope left for