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Comment 2 of 2, added on July 15th, 2006 at 2:19 PM.
And dreams, in their development, have breath
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts....
They make us what we were not - what they will,
And shake us with the vision that's gone by …
(Byron, 'The Dream', 5- 7, 15- 16) (from the Romantic Audience Project website)...
Dreams bring calm and torture to the father and his child. They both have been to the dream land, but reality brings them back. The son wonders why they live in a land of unbelief and fear, and the father "could not get to the other side." The son sees more than the father and experiences tears of joy; the father wanders and perhaps has too much "experience" to allow him to fully enter the land of dreams. The son has to question the father about the land, and interestingly enough, also realizes that it is "above the light of the Morning Star."
dallas holsten from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on May 3rd, 2005 at 2:54 PM.
This is a brilliant poem of loss and grievances. in my opinion, The widower and his child are trying to hold together after the loss of a dear mother and wife.
Lynn Overmeyer from United States
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And dreams, in their development, have breath
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts....
They make us what we were not - what they will,
And shake us with the vision that's gone by …
(Byron, 'The Dream', 5- 7, 15- 16) (from the Romantic Audience Project website)...
Dreams bring calm and torture to the father and his child. They both have been to the dream land, but reality brings them back. The son wonders why they live in a land of unbelief and fear, and the father "could not get to the other side." The son sees more than the father and experiences tears of joy; the father wanders and perhaps has too much "experience" to allow him to fully enter the land of dreams. The son has to question the father about the land, and interestingly enough, also realizes that it is "above the light of the Morning Star."
dallas holsten from United States