Question

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What makes this poem fit the genre of poems? Can lease help me? I am really bad at poems...

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

for starters, poems are not written in prose, which is the first hint. the lack of structure gives a hint that it is a poem. plus rhyming schemes are a big clue in on the fact that it is a poem! there is a lot of very vague meanings and uses of literary devices such as similes and metaphors and rhetoric, all of which are used in poems to make them more cryptic and poetic and all that good stuff:)

also, edgar allan poe is one of the most well known poets to ever live! :P

hope this helps somewhat! let me know if you have other more specific questions about this; i love poetry!

Answer 3

thank you very much!! It really helped!!