We Dream It Is Good We Are Dreaming
poem 531
We Dream It Is Good We Are Dreaming - meaning Summary
Dreaming Safer Than Waking
The poem argues that dreaming is preferable to waking because confronting painful reality would hurt. The speaker contrasts physical death, which is external, with a theatrical, inner dying that feels safer. There is anxiety that waking would expose illusions and cause a shocking surprise, so people cautiously preserve the dream. Ultimately the poem suggests it is wiser to remain in comforting fiction than to risk the harshness of truth.
Read Complete AnalysesWe dream it is good we are dreaming It would hurt us were we awake But since it is playing kill us, And we are playing shriek What harm? Men die externally It is a truth of Blood But we are dying in Drama And Drama is never dead Cautious We jar each other And either open the eyes Lest the Phantasm prove the Mistake And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite With just an Age and Name And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian It’s prudenter to dream
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