Poem:DREAMS in the dusk,
Only dreams closing the day And with the day's close going back To the gray things, the dark things, The far, deep things of dreamland. Dreams, only dreams in the dusk, Only the old remembered pictures Of lost days when the day's loss Wrote in tears the heart's loss. Tears and loss and broken dreams May find your heart at dusk. |
Explication:Dreams in the Dusk by Carl Sandsburg is a poem with a deep meaning behind it. This poem shows the rather dark side of dreams. It takes you into the dreams you dream at night, and the ones that may haunt you.
The lines, “To the gray things, the dark things, The far, deep things of dreamland,” are very powerful to me. They help you envision the deep nightmare part of dreams. It makes you think about what exactly the “deep things of dreamland” really are, and why they exist. The way Carl Sandburg wrote this poem, and it’s somewhat melancholy tone is interesting to me. It triggers my four senses and make me wonder, but also imagine. I can feel and picture someone looking at old pictures, and dreaming about the good times while shedding a tear or two. The emotion is prevailing, but yet subtle. Of course you can tell what the emotion was set out to be, but you can also make another out of it, and that’s love. The lines, Of lost days when the day's loss Wrote in tears the heart's loss. Tears and loss and broken dreams May find your heart at dusk.” especially for display the love because when you love someone and loss them you never stop loving them, which might make it harder to think about them without “writing the lost days in tears from the heart’s loss.” I love this poem for its slight depressing, yet deepness because it opens up your eyes to the darker side of dreams. Even though many people may not think that all dreams are sugar sticks, and unicorns; it’s still nice and intriguing to hear someone’s deeper side of dreamland. |