Psychoanalytic Theory-"A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
Please write a 150- to 300-word overview explaining why you think "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe can be analyzed for a critical analysis essay by using Psychoanalytic Theory. (This is an overview of a project later in the class). If you have any questions, please let me know.
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A Dream Within a Dream
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Take this kiss upon the brow!
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.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
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Psychoanalytic Theory- “A Dream within a Dream” By Edgar Allan Poe
I resonate that the poem “A Dream within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe fits the description for a critical analysis essay because of the various literary devices used during its composition. For example, the poem utilizes metaphors, symbols, imagery, and personification. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behaviors emanate from three components of the mind. The components include the id, ego, and superego. In the poem, Edgar Allan uses sand as the symbol of a life well spent, while the waves illustrate something that erodes the sand away.
In his writing, Poe used various symbols to make the meaning clear. For example, the falling grains of “sand” is an indication of the passing ti...
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