Poe's poem "A Dream within a Dream" contains two stanzas each describing a certain experience. ... The meaning of the poem "A Dream within a Dream" is that everything in life is so fleeting and fragile, it is even more distant than a dream. ... "All that we see or seem/ Is but a dream within a dream.... "Is all that we see or seem/But a dream within a dream?... Perhaps life itself is just a dream within a dream....

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People "dream about whatever they do when they're awake. ... Much to her surprise, she discovered that she had roots in Grace and that her family did have a history within the community. ... Her reunion with Loyd opened her eyes to the beauty that she possessed within and that surrounded her both in nature and in her neighbors. ... Kingsolver created within Dr. ... Instead of realizing the true and natural beauty of things, he forced the pictures and the situations within his hallucinations to develop how he imagined fit. ...

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Perfection is the key to succeed within the system. ... Her status within the system is called "valid". ... However, Vincent's whole life is built on a dream. ... Vincent's dream is so strong that he is ready to sacrifice his life just to accomplish his desire. ... If he tells Irene who waits on the other side that he has bad eyesight, she would know about the cheating and his dream would be over. ...

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Perfection is the key to succeed within the system. ... Her status within the system is called "valid". ... However, Vincent's whole life is built on a dream. ... Vincent's dream is so strong that he is ready to sacrifice his life just to accomplish his desire. ... If he tells Irene who waits on the other side that he has bad eyesight, she would know about the cheating and his dream would be over. ...

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To Janie, he represented these dreams and was her opportunity to fulfill them. ... All those hopes and dreams that Joe once represented faded back to the horizon which nearly disappeared from sight. ... Janie is no longer suppressed and finally has the opportunity to be free and pursue her hopes and dreams. ... Hurston continually contrasts Janie's interior to her exterior as to show her rebirth within while maintaining a solid appearance to please those around her. ... After two unhappy marriages, Janie's dream is realized. ...

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Early on in the novel Edna recognizes that she has lived "a small life all within herself- (Chopin, 35). ... This stirs something in her; "[she] began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul- (81). ... Edna sees her life as a dream, an illusion, an apparent "delirium... She sees her past as a dream. ... She'd rather suffer than be a "dupe to illusion-, to "life's delirium-, to dreams which bring false hope....

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Nadia Boulanger To see ideas that were once held in the face of much persistent inertia and doubt come within reach of being realized is a source of great satisfaction. ... Anatole France Hope is a waking dream. ... Douglas Adams Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. ... But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" ...

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With the death of Linda, O'Brien used his dreams as a way of handling the death. He makes up dreams of real situations they he could find himself and Linda in. ... This showed how he understands that Linda is gone, but all the dreams he made up stick in his mind even when Tim is in war. ... The memories of Linda come back to O'Brien within a couple of days while in Vietnam. ... The book shows the readers the method of handling death, the way jokes are used as a coping method, and then how the young O'Brien handled the situations of death involving his dreams. ...

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She was all for me being a dancer and pursuing my dream. ... When I faced this defeat a weakness overflowed within me. ... I say this because I've had a total of three dreams my entire life. ... That dream was the one that involved me making it out of that relationship. ... The other two dreams were becoming a professional dancer which I've already achieved. ...

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Perhaps you do, but I would speculate that few pause to consider the great depth of evil fathomable within the mind. ... Its shown quite plainly within Hamlets words. ... Slowly but surely my life gave way to the dreaming of my mind and life itself became a nightmare. My dreams were living death, morbid fantasy and nocturnal wake. ... As I froze in the middle of nowhere I lost myself to dream. ...

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No person, place or thing, no situation or event, can control us or create negativity within us. ... I understand that life is not always easy, but we must stay strong and not let others hold us down or lead us astray from accomplishing our goals and dreams. For me, the true quality of my life will ultimately weigh upon whether or not I accomplish those dreams... ...

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Third, another conflict is his dreams of success. ... Therefore when Biff returns home, he burns his University of Virginia shoes, which represent all of his hopes and dreams. Second, Biff loses faith in his father's dreams although he admires him. ... We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years." ... He is overshadowed by Biff, and therefore does everything within his power to get his father's attention. ...

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Her dreams were abruptly shattered and replaced with a scream that sent shivers right through Jess's spine. ... The scream seemed to haunt her dreams and brought nothing but fear and shadow into her mind. ... Help her see the good in the world and her importance within it. ...

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Black Elk was a great healer and visionary to his Lakota people, and during his life he did many great things to try and bring peace to his people. In my opinion, the three most significant events in Black Elk's life are; when he has his first great vision that plays a role throughout his life, wh...

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How others perceive Paul only encourages him to fulfill his dream of escaping his monotonous lifestyle. ... When Paul had left from New York City he had sampled the lifestyle he dreamed of and he could not live to face Cordelia Street, the yellow wallpaper, the cracked mirror, the somber essence of it all. He had tasted his sweet dream and feared the despair and misery that would accompany his return. ... He lived within the theater, "in the atmosphere"(Cather 254). ...

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Walter has dreams for his family and himself. ... Beneatha can see the world around her and grasp the politics that are at work within it. ... It's as if she had no regard for his dream of making better for his family. ... It's a play about perseverance, inner strength and achieving your dreams in the face of repression and self-doubt. ...

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Hank, is a professor and the department head of English at the college in the small town he resides within. ... "When the bars are closing and people are forced to consider the prospect of returning home with so many of the night's dreams unfulfilled." ... Thus each of these men is still dreaming and just trying to get along with the lives they have made for themselves. ... People often end up in lives which are not what they dreamed. ... Each character has their own set of regrets, hardships and dreams, but nevertheless is living each day to survive their little quiet life. ...

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She then follows on with the line, "then all a world I made in me/all the world you hear and see/hung upon my dreaming blood-, perhaps saying, this child within her means the world to her, and in return she created the life of her child, giving her child the world. In her poem "Woman to Man-, personal pronouns such as I', my' and our' are used signifying her personal experience within the subject. ... In "Woman to Man-, the third stanza describes that this child within her, will contain a little bit of both of them. ... For her child's life must end within her, but b...

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She surfaces feelings within Carton that is particularly new to him. ... Soon after his rival, Charles Darnay, asks Lucie's father for his daughter's hand in marriage, Sydney pledges his undying love to Lucie, admitting that, though his life is utterly worthless, she has helped him dream of a better, more valuable existence. ...

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You"re just at a stage where you will grow; grow into something which you've dreamed about often. ... You have done what you had to do to get you where you are, and you have all the power within your hands to make something of it. ...

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Ulysses is a poem about a mighty king who decides to pass his thrown to his son to pursue his dream of traveling the world. ... The speaker has a listener within the poem, but we too are his/her listener, and we learn about the speaker's character from what the speaker says. ... It is a kind of dream, a means of escape momentarily from the uncongenial environment of Ithaca" (Landow). ...

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Herman Hesse's usage of this quote is very effective in invoking deep and profound though within the reader's mind. ... Secondly, it invokes a personal reflection within the reader. ... Although I don't have a definitive future planned out in front of me, I do have the generic future dictated to most Americans, sometimes referred to as the American Dream. ...

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Within the course of an hour, Louise Mallard experiences fresh freedoms, a new sense of life, and then death. ... Mallard in this way, "a sob came up in her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams" (Chopin 15). ...

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Soon afterward I would chase my dream and declare my minor in film studies. With that combination, I felt confident in myself and started to dream of my future working in the industry of entertainment. ... Most of these I had already possessed positive traits within but importantly I learned to sharpen each trait with skills I had never learned before in my life. ...

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This is a turning point in the wretch's life, "My heart sunk within me as with better sickness." (160) He decided that if these people he confided in and showed such kindness to could not accept him then no one could. ... Rather then showing the creature love, Victor chooses to ignore the fact that he bestowed life upon the creature, " the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." (85) He leaves the creature for dead just as an irresponsible mother would leave her child at birth. ... His creator's dream of greatness turned into a nightmare, ...

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