All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe.
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within a Dream is a poem written by American poet Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem has 24 lines, divided into two stanzas.
The poem is about the confusion he felt as he watches the important things in life slip away.
He realized that he cannot hold on to even one grain of sand, he has led to his final question of whether “all things are just a dream”.
Edgar Allan Poe.
The image below was created based on the daguerreotype photo portrait of Poe. It’s was probably taken in June 1849 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
What’s a daguerreotype? It’s a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.
Here is a glitch art from a daguerreotype of Poe.
