A Dream Juxtaposition

Having a dream and living with passion is very important because I believe living without passion is like being dead. Someone like Tony Hawk could agree. Tony Hawk has been a professional skateboarder for over 24 years. However, he did not receive that title overnight; Tony got his first skateboard when he was only 9 years old. Since then, Tony worked extremely hard and put a lot of his focus on skateboarding. He did it because that was his Dream. Tony’s Dream was frowned upon by many of his teachers and adults alike. One of his teachers even told him that he “would never make it in the workplace if he didn’t follow directions exactly” (Hawk), but he never gave up his Dream. He kept working hard and eventually became a pro at the young age of 15.

This is a quote from the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe, today we compare 3 diffrent

Dream content reflects aspects of waking-life experiences. After memories are made, they are often fragmentally merged with other information to construct larger, holistic dreams. Autobiographical memories are predominantly represented in dreams in comparison to episodic and semantic memories. Among various characteristics from waking-life experiences such as places, people, and events, emotions are highly incorporated into dream content. There is also a decreasing relationship between the cognitive demand of an activity and the frequency in which that activity occurs in dreams. Dreams tend to include material from experiential memories and events from the preceding day as well as experiences from 5-7 days prior. The recurrence of memory content in dreams seems to support the hypothesis that dreaming helps with memory consolidation, or particularly the content which is reflected in dreams.

I remember having dreams and when I have had them they were very interesting, and I wander why. 1 Reading the text book, it says most people dream four to five times a night, but not all people remember their dreams upon awakening in the morning. Non-dreamers are often surprised by their dreams when they first awake. (Dennis Coon, 2016). 1 How meaningful are dreams? Some theorist believe that dreams have deeply hidden meanings. Others regard dreams as nearly meaningless. 2 Yet others hold that dreams reflect our waking thoughts, fantasies and emotions(hartmann,2011). I also looked up on the Dream Bible which I never knew that these sites exist, so it was very interesting reading the different sites. 3 The dream Bible says

‘A Dream Within A Dream’ was written by Edgar Allan Poe on 1849, the year that he was found dead because of substance abuse. Considering that the author had gone through many hard times throughout his life with the loss of his beloved ones, this poem might refer to the emotional pain he suffered that let him to question the reality of life. The poem is written in despair as the tone is a mixture of mystery, loneliness and despair. The poem deals with the speaker’s troubling idea that reality is just a dream as the narrator parts from his/her lover at first and then struggles to accept and live with the truth. The reader gets the sense of loneliness as the poem is full of imagery with metaphorically questioning and emotional words, taking

Since Romanticism often places emphasis on the importance of emotion, Romantics may use dream imagery to display the overflow of abundant feelings. Such is the case with Edgar Allen Poe’s “Ligeia”. While Poe’s themes are usually Romantic, “Ligeia” uses dreams to “[dramatize] the romantic's disenchantment with a world drained of its power to arouse joy and a sense of elevated being” (Gargano 338). The fine line of fantasy vs reality is blurred and bestows multiple versions of reality as the narrator slowly descends into madness. Poe’s use of dream imagery is prominent during the descriptions of the house, the narrators reminiscences of his first wife Ligeia, and his opium induced hallucinations. The use of this literary device demonstrates how the loss of Ligeia messes with the narrator's sanity and sense of fulfillment in his life. These dreams enable him to revisit Ligeia“out of [his] own self-consciousness” (Lawrence).

"A Dream Within A Dream "by Edgar Allen Poe is a poem about the loss of love , the heartbreaking sadness that one faces and the ephemeral nature of time and fleeting of existence. The poem is well known due to Poe 's various poetic techniques that have been used to represent the excruciating context that Poe expresses in his poem. The main theme of the poem is the loss or lack of love that one faces. By taking a look at Poe 's use of concealed tone and structure, the various poetic techniques used and as well as the concealed literary devices; Poe expresses an excruciating context.

In the poem "A Dream," Edgar Allen Poe gives the reader insight to his dark life. Although he has this hard life, he explains that he has this one dream that he always thinks about, which legs him escape from the harsh reality of the world. Through his use of junxtapostion and symbolism Poe demonstrates how he uses his dream to pull through the rough life he has, even if he knows that his dream may not be obtainable.

Poe uses darkness as intrinsic to humanity to explore the more unknown terror of living in a false reality. As Poe distorts the world around the protagonist of the poem, the reader absorbs the blurred lines of reality surrounding him. By using a false reality, Poe displays a side of terror that is only confronted in our dreams and unconscious mindset. This can be seen through the character describing his dream ‘of a surf tormented shore, and I hold within my hand grains of the golden sand- how few!

Dreams come in all shapes and forms. Every dream experience falls into one of the following categories: Prophetic Dreams, Release Dreams, Wish Dreams, Informative and Problem solving dreams, and Astral Visits. So many people take dreams for granted or think they do not mean anything, but they do. Dreams are incredible when you learn what they are, mean and why we dream at all.

This poem strikes hard wild understanding. Creative reading seems very present in Edgar Allen Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream". There is the constant need for re-reading. After totally understanding it seems like a troubled poem. It takes about how we, as the reader or observer, might not really exist, but rather that we are just a mere shape in a dream of another. In lines 12-24 Poe expresses a deep image. It takes the reader back to the times they sat on a beach with the waves pushing the sand past, except Poe thinks about the sand and the water and where it is all headed. But can't we relate this to our own lives? "I stand amid the roar/Of a surf-tormented shore" (12-13). Take high school for instance... We (high school students) stand among thousands of teenagers everyday contemplating the very existence of this institution filled with too many emotions for crazy, hormonal teenagers.

A Dream Within A Dream, Annabel Lee, The Raven, and The City In The Sea are well known examples of Poe’s mastery of classic literature. Edgar Allan Poe was “one of the most well-published” poets and very critical of Transcendentalism in the 19th century. Poe did not approve of the work of the Transcendentalists and was a Prolific writer himself. The established poet was inspired by his life and each of his poems included a life experience embedded within. Edgar Allan Poe wrote A Dream Within A Dream and Annabel Lee after his wife, Virginia, had died in 1847 as tributes to her and to describe his loss and loneliness. Edgar Allan Poe’s life influenced his poem’s because the tones reflected the emotions he was feeling and the themes reflected the lessons he was learning.

The poem begins with the narrator's describing the poem as a 'dream' that ''was not at all a dream'', which already causes doubt and tension within the reader. The narrator then goes on to talk about

Many people can relate to the feeling of desperation that comes with acknowledgement of a person’s cosmic insignificance. In the poem “A Dream Within a Dream”, Poe utilizes multiple poetic devices in order to shape and define the way a reader analyzes the poem. These devices further bring the reader to understand the purpose of the poem: to show how death is inescapable.

I jolted awake in fear. I had a dream. A weird dream. A vivid dream. It was full of people shouting and bright flashes of light. It was confusing yet clear, like some part of me understood it. I didn’t know it would be important then but now I know. How? Well, it happened like this…