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The poem emphasizes that even if one slips or faces potential failure, the effort and struggle are worthwhile, and there is hope and clear skies beyond the darkness. The poem motivates the reader to persist, even when weary and close to giving up, asserting that true joy and bliss come from overcoming hardships.
The Dream is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1816. It has been described as expressing "central Romantic beliefs about dreams". [ 1 ] It also describes the view from the Misk Hills , close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead , Nottinghamshire . [ 2 ]
"A Dream" is a poem by English poet William Blake. The poem was first published in 1789 as part of Blake's collection of poems entitled Songs of Innocence . A 1795 hand painted version of "A Dream" from Copy L of Songs of Innocence and of Experience currently held by the Yale Center for British Art [ 1 ]
The Dream" is a poem by the metaphysical poet John Donne. It was first printed in 1633, two years after Donne's death. [1] References
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by novelist Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry.
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is a short story by American poet and short story writer Delmore Schwartz. "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is widely regarded as one of Schwartz's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. Of all of Schwartz's stories, it is probably his best-known and most influential. [1]
The framing device is the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The poem itself is divided up into three separate sections: the first part (lines 1–27), the second part (lines 28–121) and the third part (lines 122–156). [1]