Good Dream Poets?

[FluBB]

well... i have an english assignment and i need to choose a poet. i need to have at least 40 poems by that person, and preferably a biography about the poet as well. and i was hoping you guys would know of any poets that write about dreams or lucidity or anything like that.... because im into that and i might actually do the assignment if it is something i would want to do.. thanks.

[~Erin~]

I think I know what your talking about I have two to see if you want to use Edgar for your assignment Both by Edgar allen Poe Dreams : which is my favourite Dreams by: Edgar Allen Poe Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awak'ning till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, 'T were better than the cold reality Of waking life, to him whose heart must be, And hath been still, upon the lovely earth, A chaos of deep passion, from his birth. But should it be - that dream eternally Continuing - as dreams have been to me In my young boyhood - should it thus be giv'n, 'T were folly still to hope for higher Heav'n. For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light And loveliness, - have left my very heart In climes of mine imagining, apart From mine own home, with beings that have been Of mine own thought - what more could I have seen? 'T was once - and only once - and the wild hour From my remembrance shall not pass - some pow'r Or spell had bound me - 't was the chilly wind Cam o'er me in the night, and left behind Its image on my spirit - or the moon Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon Too coldly - or the stars - howe'er it was, That dream was as that night-wind - let it pass. I have been happy, tho' [but] in a dream. I have been happy - and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality which brings To the delirious eye, more lovely things Of Paradise and Love - and all our own! Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known. And ... A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe I know it's not 40 poems but I think in a bunch he wrote , he mentioned dreams in one context or another Hope thats helps!

[FluBB]

hey thanks... i will look into more of his stuff

[Artelis]

Check out Wallace Stevens. He is VERY abstract and I've heard claims that a lot of ideas came from dreams.