STRUCTURALISM

A Dream Within a Dream - Edgar Allan Poe

(Poem)

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? 

Analysis:

This poem has a consistent rhyming pattern until it reaches the last two stanzas. The title of the poem is somehow catchy to the eyes of the reader. If someone is making any essays or any kind of piece the title should always be striking so the readers would be interested with your work. The choice of words the author used are simpler compared to some other poems which enables the reader to understand and extrapolate her piece better.     

Some of the stanzas begins with different question which makes the reader be attached to the poem and continue to read it. And which results to reader's examination of his/her own beliefs and thoughts.