All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. "
The significance of this poem is Poe's masterful rhetorical devices
which created a role for the reader to enter. In 'A Dream Within A
Dream: Poe scripted the reader to slip inside his imagined world. By
using first person narrative, Poe, gently led the reader into the role
of 'I'. The 'I' invites the reader to open their imagination, their
memories and insights of loss and despair. By breaking the distance
between the page and the reader's gaze, Poe scripted the 'I' to be
universal.
Read Charles Baudelaire's comments on Poe:" He connected with
Poe's genius. This is from Baudelarie: In case every introductory
passage quietly draws you in like a whirlpool. His solemnity takes the
reader by surprise and keeps his mind alert. Immediately he feels
that something serious is involved. And slowly, little by little, a story
unfolds in which all interest depends on an imperceptible intellectual
deviation on a bold hypothesis, on an imprudent dose of Nature in
the amalgam of faculties. The reader, seized by a kind of vertigo, is
constrained to follow through his compelling deductions".
(C.Baudelaire,1856)
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