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rich & detailed Stripping a Poem for Credit Name(s): Marina Hart A Dream Within A Dream Period: 5 Author: Edgar Allan Poe

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Explain who the author is along with things that strike you as important or interesting: -Edgar Allan Poe: first well-known American poet who tried to make a living off of writingled to a difficult life. -Orphaned very young. -Genre: Dark romanticism, gothic, etc. Paraphrase the poem: Let me kiss your forehead while I leave. And let me say that youre right if you have decided that my life has been a dream. But if hope has left in reality or not, is it actually gone? Everything around us is just a dream. I stand in the middle of a shore holding sand. There isnt much but they still find their way out of my hands to the ocean again. Now Im crying because I cant hold the sand no matter how hard I try. Can I not save the sand from the waves? Is everything around us just a dream? Is it narrative? lyrical? Or dramatic? Lyrical Organization & Structure: List stanzas, lines per stanza, end-rhyme, meter, grammar, word choices, connotation etc. -2 Stanzas with 11 lines in the first stanza, and 13 lines in the second. -24 lines total. - End-rhyme: AAABBCCDDBBEEFFGGGHHIIBB -Older English words such as O and thus. -Older English grammar. Figurative Interpretation: List and label examples of IMAGERY: 5 senses, similes, metaphor, onomatopoeia, symbols, alliteration, antithesis, and personification. Senses: ..yet, how they creep through my fingers.. Similies: None Metaphor: None Onomatopoeia: None Symbols: The sand is a symbol for things in life slipping away. Alliteration: Grains of the golden sand.. ..that we see or seem.. ..dream within a dream. ..hold within my hand. ..surf-tormented shore. Antithesis: Line 10-11: All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. And line 23-24: Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream? Personification: ..if hope has flown away.

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Mood (what atmosphere and imagery does the poem bring to mind? Use a specific word to name): The mood is confusion. The imagery that comes to mind for me is a stormy ocean and a man who is very confused about life and why things are happening to him. The atmosphere is gloomy and morbid. Tone (what is the authors attitude toward the subject? Use a specific word to name it & explain):

Overall, what do you think the poets underlying message or theme is?

What is your personal response to the poem?