"A Dream Within a Dream"

By: Edgar Allen Poe

"A Dream Within a Dream", like most Poe works, is a haunting retrospective and search into the mind. It causes question and thought all aspects of life as to whether or not it is real, or just illusion. He speaks to someone as he is leaving and conveys to them that he believes his life may be a dream within a dream, meaning that nothing would be real in his world. Then later he speaks of the sand on the shore and how it passes through his fingers and he cannot save even one, thus saying that life is uncontrollable. This is a beautifully written work, as every Poe piece is. Poe uses personification, imagery, and symbolism, to show the reader that you may never be sure that life is not a dream and to explain...