Question

I NEED HELP! Edgar Allen Poe uses a pair of rhyming words to describe trying to hold sand in "A dream WiThin a Dream". In a short paragraph. Tell what words are and how they express the speaker's feelingd. Use details from the poem to support your answer.

Here is the poem:
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?

Answer 1

To describe trying to hold sand, Edgar Allan Poe uses these pair of rhyming words:

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand-

How few! Yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep.

The author is describing his lost of hope "In a night, or in a day / In a vision, or in none". He is talking about a goodbye, a sad moment where he feels the loss of his illusion, like grains of sand falling from his hands, falling deep while he weeps, he cries of sadness for the goodbye.