1. A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Prepared by:
Mohd Hanafy bin Abd Rashid ( )
Radiyah binti Abd Karim ( )

2. STANZA 1 STANZA 2 triplet couplet couplet couplet couplet couplet
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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Form
The poem is a lyric poem,
divided into two stanzas
composed of nine couplets (pairs of rhyming lines) = PINK & PURPLE
and two triplets (groups of three rhyming lines). =YELLOW
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3. THEME
Despair : Poet reflects his despair by using melancholic tone through out the poem.
Hopelessness : It is about a person who have lost hope or the lost of love.
Isolation : the poem shows that the person is showing signs of loneliness.
Poet feels that his life has been as unreal as a dream.
It reflects his despair at watching the important moments and events of life slip through his fingers like “golden sand” and yet he is not being able to stop them as they fall into the waves of time and go into the past.

4. FIRST STANZA
“Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow -” Meaning: The poet lost his lover that left him all alone. He is giving her one last kiss goodbye at her brow at the day she died. Avow : the person admits and being certain.
End Rhyme: because its rhyme mostly places at the end of the stanza
Meaning:
bids farewell to a loved one for the last time before she passed away as is shown by the “kiss upon the brow

5. FIRST STANZA “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?”
Meaning:
The poet has distraught feeling that life is unreal, as a dream in a dream. The poet seems unwilling to accept that life is all a big dream. The feeling of hopelessness and some of the emotional pain he endures.
Literature device:
Personification : it is a description of something nonhuman that gives it humanlike qualities. Hope being described as flying away, as if hope had a choice and could leave.
Alliteration : deem, dream, hope, has
Repetition : in a night or in a day, in a vision or in none.
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6. FIRST STANZA “All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream”
Meaning:
The poet believe that his life is just a dream within a dream.
Literature device:
Alliteration – see, seem, dream within a dream.

7. SECOND STANZA
“I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore,” Meaning: The roaring, raging, crazy waves pictures the emotional instability of the poet as he deals with the pain, the sorrow, the anger and the confusion due to his loss. Meanwhile the shore is described as being “tormented” by the waves, each time the waves wrack a shore. It means the way a person would be tormented by feelings, how a person feels when emotions wrack them. Literary Device: metaphor (shore and waves represent forces of life)

8. SECOND STANZA “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!”
Meaning:
He cries as he tried to hold grains of sand in his hand. He cannot keep the sand from running out of his hand means the time is slipping away from him. Whatever memory that he grasps or whatever he longs for, easily slips through his fingers, like grains of sand. s
Literary Device:
Metaphor ("few" "grains" of "golden sand" that "creep through" the poet’s  "fingers" represent the most treasured moment or time he had in the past, all of that will turned into memories that will lasted forever in his life.
Personification (“sand” = sand in an hourglass, and his hand can be compared to an hourglass. As the sand passes between his fingers, time is running out).
Repetition (“While I weep – while I weep!) Hyperbole Tone Summary,  indicates that he is crying and possibly in pain. At the same time, the repetition of this hopeless phrase creates a feeling of depression and melancholy.
Alliteration (“hold within my  hand”, ”Grains of golden sand”, ”While I weep– while I weep”)
SECOND STANZA
Hyperbole extreme exaggeration used to make a point
e.g: “I’ve told you a million times” & “It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets”
Personification giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas
e.g: An author describing the sun smiling on a field of flowers
Onomatopoeia  a word that sounds like the common sound of the object it is describing.
e.g; a train being called a choo choo.
Alliteration  occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound.
For example, “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases

9. Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? ”
“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? ”
Meaning:
The repetition of the two words “oh God” stress out that the poet desperately having hopes to God to let the beautiful moments remain in time and not leaving him as in reality, no matter how tight his clasp, his grasp could not save the memory (sand) from slipping away.
He then questions again whether everything that happens to us in life is as irrelevant as a dream.
Literary Device:
Personification (“pitiless wave” = waves are described as having no pity, as if they have feelings like a human).
Repetition (“ O God! can I not grasp”, “O God! can I not save” “all that we see or seem, But a dream within a dream”)
As the sand flows away until all time has passed, the lovers' time also disappears, and the sand and the romance each turn into impressions from a dream.