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I was browsing around the net the other day and I came across a website that had listed their "quote of the day". I instantly recognized this quote as the first stanza for the poem "A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe. While I was posting this poem in the Entertain Me section of my site, I started thinking about Desmond and the episode Flashes Before Your Eyes.
We all know now that this episode was not a flashback or a dream as per the last official podcast by the executive producers. But what was it that exactly happened during that episode? During the second stanza of the poem, it reads as such:
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?
During the first few lines, it mentions of the surf-tormented shore which I take to believe as the island. He's holding the sand and in a sense, a part of the island, in his protection. But as he's holding this sand, it starts to slip through his fingers and into the ocean. He tries to save it because he is terrified of what may happen. And as it slips away, the hatch implodes and the sky turns purple. He then develops his visions and sees that Charlie is in danger. He then go off to try and save him but as he is doing this, many strange things occur around him. Things don't quite seem to make sense and therefore he questions himself and what is happening around him.
When I had reread this poem, I instantly thought of Desmond and his difficulties. The writers have not placed any clues or hidden easter eggs for this poem or Edgar Allan Poe. But this poem does make you think. It makes you think about reality and fantasy. It makes you wonder, do we really know what time it is on the island? And can we really tell the difference between the past, present and future?
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To read the entire poem, click on this link:
www.katiescrazyride.com/entertain-me/2007/2/24/a-dream-within-a-dream-edgar-allan-poe.html
