A Dream Within a Dream By Edgar Allan Poe

Question

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow1 —

You are not wrong, who deem2

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?



Footnotes:

1. Avow (verb) to assert or confess openly

2. Deem (verb) to judge or consider in a specific way

Question 1
1. The speaker parts from someone who believes the speaker's life has been lived like a dream.(1 point)
Responses

True
True

False

Answer 1

True