This 3 stanza poem explores the concept of dreams within dreams and questions whether hopes and visions were real or not. The speaker kisses their lover on the brow while parting, acknowledging that their days together felt like a dream. Even if hope was only present for a night or day, or was just a vision, it is still gone. The poem concludes that all we experience in life could be considered a dream within a dream.
This 3 stanza poem explores the concept of dreams within dreams and questions whether hopes and visions were real or not. The speaker kisses their lover on the brow while parting, acknowledging that their days together felt like a dream. Even if hope was only present for a night or day, or was just a vision, it is still gone. The poem concludes that all we experience in life could be considered a dream within a dream.
This 3 stanza poem explores the concept of dreams within dreams and questions whether hopes and visions were real or not. The speaker kisses their lover on the brow while parting, acknowledging that their days together felt like a dream. Even if hope was only present for a night or day, or was just a vision, it is still gone. The poem concludes that all we experience in life could be considered a dream within a dream.
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 Is but a dream within a dream.