Edgar allan poe

repetition

• While I Weep- While I Weep! 
• This mood is sad. 

"hope" is the metaphor meaning (interpretation)

• Saying that "hope" will be there in good or bad times.    
• The author said that, "yet if hope has flown away, in a night, or in a day,
• is it therefore the less gone."

i stand amid the "roar"

PERSONIFICATION to the sand going through his fingers

• "how few! yet how they creep through my fingers to the deep"
• This is saying that he is losing things fast. 

1st stanza

• Hope is there no matter what.
• Hope will be with you in your dream and not in a dream.

alliteration is the grains and golden

• Grains of the golden sand.
• Saying that the golden sand is valuable. 

2nd stanza

• Saying that the narrator is losing everything and his life is falling apart
• It says in the poem that "how few! yet how they creep through my fingers 
• to the deep, while i weep, while i weep." 
• This sounds very dark and like he is losing everything.

dream within a dream

• This is a great poem but this is a dark and sad poem.  
• When i was reading it it was a confusing and hard poem but some 
• I made it through and kept working
• Higher level thinking 
• Very very interesting 

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