[DOF] Entertainment: What's you favorite poem/poetry?

A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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?

 

Edgar Allan Poe is well known for his poetry and short stories, one of his best works are creepy and mysterious like "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven".

 

A Dream Within a Dream is written by him and published in 1849.

A Dream Within a Dream explores the difference between our perceptions of life and the effects of time. Within the poem, he illustrates a human life slipping away, trickling like "sand" and implies that our existence is insubstantial, just an abstraction of the mind.

 

He is my favorite poet. His works are well written and his creepy tales and artistic poems always leaves goosebumps on my skin.

 

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