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"A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by American poet Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem has 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. Analysis The poem dramatizes the confusion felt by the narrator as he watches the important things in life slip away. Realizing he cannot hold on to even one grain of sand, he is led to his final question whether all things are just a dream. It has been suggested that the "golden sand" referenced in the 15th line signifies that which is to be found in an hourglass, consequently time itself. Another interpretation holds that the expression evokes an image derived from the 1848 finding of gold in California. The latter interpretation seems unlikely, however, given the presence of the four, almost identical, lines describing the sand in another poem "To ——," which is regarded as a blueprint for "A Dream Within a Dream" and preceding its publication by two decades. Publication history The poem was first published in the March 31, 1849, edition of the Boston-based story paper The Flag of Our Union. The same publication had only two weeks before first published Poe's short story "Hop-Frog." The next month, owner Frederick Gleason announced it could no longer pay for whatever articles or poems it published. Adaptations Picnic at Hanging Rock, a story about a group of girls disappearing while on a field trip to a rock formation in the early 20th century, begins with a voice over that states "What we see and what we seem is but a dream. A dream within a dream". The Alan Parsons Project's album Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe opens with an instrumental homage to the poem. Its 1987 re-release included a narration by Orson Welles. The Propaganda album A Secret Wish, released in 1985, opens with the track "Dream Within A Dream". The poem is recited in spoken-word form by vocalist Susanne Freytag. Biological Radio, the 1997 Dreadzone album, features the track "Dream Within A Dream" which quotes lines from the poem. The Yardbirds' recorded a musical adaptation for their 2003 album Birdland, adding a new verse of their own. Elysian Fields recorded a musical adaptation of the song. Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows adapted the poem for their album Poetica - All Beauty Sleeps. Korean boy group NCT utilized the poem as a concept base, mentioning "Dream Within a Dream" several times throughout their discography. Examples include "Dream in a Dream" by TEN (NCT 2018 Empathy, 2018) and "INTERLUDE: Regular-Irregular" by NCT 127 (Regular-Irregular, 2018), with additional references in media. Polish singers Sanah and Grzegorz Turnau recorded a song, "Sen we śnie", which uses Poe's poem translated to Polish by poet and translator Włodzimierz Lewik as its lyrics. References External links The full text of A Dream Within a Dream at Wikisource Media related to A Dream Within a Dream at Wikimedia Commons An omnibus collection of Poe's poetry at Standard Ebooks A Dream Within A Dream Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, from about.com. Video of A Dream Within a Dream A Dream within a Dream public domain audiobook at LibriVox. Discover the Gone Dream popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Gone Dream books.
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English Mystery Plays
Peter HappeHumour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale an...
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The Dream is Gone Economic Survival in 21st Century America
Ron CharlestonFor many Americans, it may seem like they are moving rapidly out of the middle class and towards poverty. This is not just a feeling. The middle class is disappearing, and you need...
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On The Slow Train
Michael Williams'A trip back in time' DAILY TELEGRAPHA love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia.Get ready to board the slow train to another era, to a time when travel meant more t...
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Gaskell & Elisabeth JayElizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic autho...
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Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light'Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection betwee...
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Six Records of a Floating Life
Shen FuSix Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his livin...
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Make It Work
Tony A. GaskinsCelebrity coach and speaker Tony A. Gaskins shares proven principlesgleaned from real life failures and successesfor building and sustaining a healthy relationship in today’s times...
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The Speed of Sound
Scott EymanFrom acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end of an era. It was a turbulen...
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Get Your Life Back
John EldredgeAre you ready to get your life back? Join New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge as he shares practical, simple, and refreshing tips for living fully.By inc...
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Rebuilding Beautiful
Kayla StoeckleinSpeaker and author Kayla Stoecklein delivers an inspiring message of how she came facetoface with crushing personal loss and discovered how to rebuild a beautiful life. Fall i...
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Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when th...
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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad & Veronique PaulyNostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo though one hundred years old says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts ...
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Good Dream Gone Bad
Alice RatemoGood Dream Gone Bad is a story about a welloff family living in Dallas that has it all in the beginning: love, peace, happiness and wealth. That is, until the unexpected begins t...
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Where Dreams Have Gone
Norma HarrsDreams vanish in most of the masterful stories that make up Norma Harrs's new collection. A young Irish girl falls in love with an older married professor and has her first date wi...
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When Your Dream Is Gone
Olatunde Turner-EdemLosing a loved one is one of the most difficult things one has to deal with in life. It is one of the most painful experience where we say good bye to people we love. Some get to s...
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Toward a Secret Sky
Heather MacleanToward a Secret Sky by New York Times bestselling author Heather Maclean is a new breed of YA novel: an intelligent adventurequest crossed with a sweeping, forbidden love story. A ...
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The Salt in Our Bars
Gone DreamA familyfriendly, educationallyentertaining parody of "The Fault in Our Stars".13yearold Razor Craze Manchester is just your average girl. Nothing special. Or is she? Of course, no...
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The Stuff of Dreams
James SwallowAn original enovel from the Original Series universe!The EnterpriseE arrives in unclaimed space for a rendezvous with the Starfleet science vessel Newton. JeanLuc Picard and his cr...
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All Gone to Look for America
Peter MillarAt the age of 52 and with a shoestring budget, Peter Millar set about rediscovering the United States by following the last traces of the technological wonder that created the coun...
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Gone Dollywood
Graham HoppeDolly Parton isn’t just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart of that empire is Dollywood, a 150acre fantasy land that hosts three million people a year....
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Highway of Tears
Jessica McDiarmid“These murder cases expose systemic problems... By examining each murder within the context of Indigenous identity and regional hardships, McDiarmid addresses these very issues, fi...
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The Last Muster
Carly ThomasA journey into the high country of Aotearoa Mustering by horse is a tradition that goes back to the first runholders and is, for some, still a rich and vital part of life on New Ze...
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The Law and the Lady
Wilkie CollinsDespite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband...
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Sri Aurobindo
Roshen DalalAn illuminating exploration of the life and philosophy of an uncommon visionary.Widely revered as a preeminent philosopher and spiritual leader, Sri Aurobindo’s teachings and legac...
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Asylum
Edafe OkporoA “moving…dramatic” (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay r...
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Sylvia Plath"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be mo...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Oscar WildeThis poem originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of t...