A Dream Without A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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;
Tey if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in a 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

These are the figurative language used by the poet

Hyperbole:
Edgar Allan Poe uses the phrase "amid the roar" which means stands weeping in the roar which shows a little exergeration, it shows that he is very unhappy and sad over a certain matter that he has to "amid the roar"

Personification:
Edgar Allan Poe uses the phrase "Grains of the golden sand... yet how they creep" He is giving life to the grains of sand and decribes them as "they" and "creep" He is describing the sand falling through his fingers.

Metaphor:
Edgar Allan Poe uses the phrase "hope has flown away" which is a Metaphor. I think that he wants to show how his hope has "'left him".

Symbolism:
The symbolism in the poem is "surf torment shore" where the poet describes himself to be in a torment shore and is disturbed.

This is my favourite poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Chua Zhong Zhi (7) 1A2