为你读诗3（Read poems for you）--A Dream Within a Dream

About this Poem 

Representative of Poe’s later work, “A Dream Within a Dream” is a revised version of a poem Poe originally composed in the 1820s. It is considered one of the poet’s finest shorter poems. In an article published in 1849, Poe wrote, “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”