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Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream,” published in 1849, explores the difference between the real and the imaginary. Within the poem, he illustrates a human life slipping away, trickling like “sand,” and implies that our existence is insubstantial, just an abstraction of the mind.

The poem focusses on the passing of time as perceived through reflection at or near the end of one’s life. In the fullness of time, the lives we live appear as dreams, fleeting and futile.

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March 31, 1849
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