Take this kiss upon the browl 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 10
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. 15
How few yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep.
White Iweep-while I weep!
O God can not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?20
O God can not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Question:
By definition, a dream is an imagined series of events that occurs during sleep. The connotation for the word dream is
positive in nature, because people associate dreams with hopes, goals, and success
Based on the title of this poem, the reader might expect the poem to have a positive or happy tone. The reader soon comes
to the conclusion that the typical connotation of the word dream does not apply here.
State how the reader knows that the usual connotation of the word dream does not apply in this poem. Use details from the
poem to support your answer