A Dream Within a Dream | POEM ANALYSIS

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This video provides a detailed critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream". The poem is a questioning of the realness of reality. Let us explore what these two layers of dreams are. Meanwhile, we will delve into the poetic devices used in the poem, and see how they contribute to the poem's meaning. "A Dream Within a Dream" is definitely one of my favorite poems from Edgar Allan Poe. Grab your notebook and ten different color highlighters! Let's get this analysis done! See you in Between The Lines.

0:00 intro
0:41 Reading the poem
1:40 Title
3:44 Lines 1-3
7:15 Lines 4-5
8:30 Lines 6-9
10:33 Lines 10-11
10:53 Lines 12-13
12:02 Lines 14-15
12:59 Lines 16-17
13:46 Line 18
14:32 Lines 19-20
15:23 Lines 21-22
15:53 Lines 23-24
16:26 FORM

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Wow! This is an amazing analysis of the poem 👏 I absolutely love Edgar Allan Poe and am always intrigued by others investigating and dissecting his work. The little edits you added into the video for visual effect were also super awesome!! Great video :)

mima

excellent analysis .. I see the tormented shore as Poe's vision of Life, the surf (waves) as each Day and the golden sands as grains in an hourglass (Time) that flow down inexorably to the final grain ... a sad life indeed

FairwayJack

Great explanation of this poem, Adam! 👏~

In fact, the fact of bringing such a topic of a dream within another dream (or also, a simulation inside the simulation) already can make things quite complex. This brings me back René Descartes, and the "cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am).
In this case, if we use the logic Descartes used to explain reality and confirms his existence, we would achieve just half of the thing, after all, there would still exist a "second" layer above reality itself. (Inception comes to mind as well)
Of course, there are many aspects of it, and it's definitely crazy to imagine this "short" poem from more than a century could still makes us try to decipher it.
Poe was brilliant!

telescopoet

Well done.! Very helpful and entertaining. You've given me much to ponder for an upcoming reading.

EndangeredCoast

I've noticed that in my dreams I can watch something start to happen, like maybe I'm walking down the street I see a person approaching. In my head before I meet that person I come up with an idea. They are a threat. Or a friend for example. And then when we meet, they are always exactly what I thought before hand. Implying I created the scenario I dreamt before I dreamt it. I think this is applicable to real life. We create our reality deep within unconsciously. And the loss of someone we love(the grains of golden sand) is some how the results of our actions. Even more, the results of our thoughts. We create a reality we can not hold on to. Just like every dream.

JohnBender

Amazing analysis! Really helped me understand the poem.

johnziyadeh

can't find an analysis better than this one.☺

msMuhammadSiddique

My understanding of the poem led me to concise the first part to the famous question “ does the end justify the means?” and the second to the famous statement “ I think, therefore, I am.”

neoprince

Beautifully done ❤️
Thank you for this video!

Dimension

thanks for the explanations. much appreciated

noted_

I always thought that it was his dream but when he says he can’t grasp the golden sand it means he’s having bad dreams and his dreams aren’t how he wants them to be because of his real life he can only dream of bad things

stressedyeti

besides explaining so well, you have also worked good in editing to elaborate the topic, Thanks a lot sir

TheArtisansSketchbook

This is a great analysis, and cool editing too.

arpithavarma

such a good analysis. Please analyze these poems:
"1. Good Timber 2. Mother to Son 3. The world is Too Much with Us 4. Ozymandias 5. The Road Not Taken 6. Solitary Reaper 7. If 8. The Toys 9. All the World's a Stage 10. Once Upon a Time 11. Lines from a Deserted Village.

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