"A Dream Within A Dream": Reaction/Reflection

     The poem "A Dream Within a Dream" is centered on Poe, which gives it a Romanticism feel. So that means his personal feelings and himself are in the poem. While reading the poem, the Romanticism can help you see yourself in Poe's position and if you have ever felt like Poe does in this poem then you can obviously relate to it. Poe talks about golden grains of sand falling through his fingers. Poe could be making a reference to an "hourglass of life". Edgar Allan Poe's philisophical poem contains questions that I too have wondered before. Is reality even real, is it all an illusion? It might also be asking, why does life have to end? Is our reality just a dream within a dream?