In the poem “The Dream” by John Donne, it talks about the speaker having a happy dream about the person he’s in love with. The poem describes the speaker as a person who is madly in love. So in the dream, the speaker sees the woman and tries to woo her to come into bed with him by giving her compliments. But the woman pinpoint the right time of the pleasure in his dream, then uses this opportunity to wake him up. The narrator understands because he wants to be awake with the woman and promises her that they should continue the dream in reality at the end. With that being said, “The Dream” aims to make people realize that love cannot go without pain and fear.
First, the speaker starts off living in a dream which seems to be a happy one. While …show more content…
When I said that something bad was going to happen in the last paragraph, it kind of did and it gives me the answer why because two quotes which says, “Coming and staying show’d thee, thee/But rising makes me doubt, that now/Thou art not thou/That love is weak where fear’s as strong as he/’Tis not all spirit, pure and brave/If mixture it of fear, shame, honour have (Lines 21-26) and “Thou cam’st to kindle, goest to come; then I/ Will dream that hope again, would else would die (Lines 29-30). So in the first line, I think the speaker felt his love become weaker due to panic and sexual frustration and plus on the second line, I think that the woman had figured it out what he was thinking (which of course because he is in a “dream”) so she tease and play with his emotions. Because of that, I think the speaker was upset and let her go, but not without saying that he hopes to find her in reality instead of his dreams before she wakes him up, he was glad that he had the dream regardless. So this is what I think what happened in the last …show more content…
Call me crazy if you want to, but I also believe that John Donne was the next “William Shakespeare” , he used excellent imagery to keep the suspense going throughout the poem, and picked two symbols to describe his feelings for the woman. But what took the cake is the sexual tension between the speaker and the dream woman towards the ending (even though there was mixed emotions about it. But overall, I think this poem has everything to make you say “What A
First, the speaker starts off living in a dream which seems to be a happy one. While …show more content…
When I said that something bad was going to happen in the last paragraph, it kind of did and it gives me the answer why because two quotes which says, “Coming and staying show’d thee, thee/But rising makes me doubt, that now/Thou art not thou/That love is weak where fear’s as strong as he/’Tis not all spirit, pure and brave/If mixture it of fear, shame, honour have (Lines 21-26) and “Thou cam’st to kindle, goest to come; then I/ Will dream that hope again, would else would die (Lines 29-30). So in the first line, I think the speaker felt his love become weaker due to panic and sexual frustration and plus on the second line, I think that the woman had figured it out what he was thinking (which of course because he is in a “dream”) so she tease and play with his emotions. Because of that, I think the speaker was upset and let her go, but not without saying that he hopes to find her in reality instead of his dreams before she wakes him up, he was glad that he had the dream regardless. So this is what I think what happened in the last …show more content…
Call me crazy if you want to, but I also believe that John Donne was the next “William Shakespeare” , he used excellent imagery to keep the suspense going throughout the poem, and picked two symbols to describe his feelings for the woman. But what took the cake is the sexual tension between the speaker and the dream woman towards the ending (even though there was mixed emotions about it. But overall, I think this poem has everything to make you say “What A