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Elegy: The Dream

                                     

 Elegy: The Dream

                           John Donne 


                John Donne's Elegy X with the title "The Dream" is about a lover confession on his love for beloved and the difference between Dream and Reality. The poem opens with a comparison between lovers' heart and a coin. The poet has used image of coin for the expression of love. The way a coin is impressed with the image of his beloved. The way image of a king sings  to coin , her image gives honour and importance to his heart. The lovers says that only those who are weak in their spirit bother for honour. He doesn't care for honour because he believes that her image has given honour to him.


                The lover going a head in his confessions mentions that when  she goes away , his reasoning  ends and there begins empires of fantasy. The lover is of opinion that fantasy can't give him the joy of that height which real presence can give.  The reason is the joy given by fantasy is convened and preoperational . Her real arrival has the capacity of giving the joy of shocks also.  If the lover dream's he would like to have dream  about her. The lover considers sleep a great escape from pain because sleep locks the process of thinking when the lover gets up after his sleep , he won't repent for the end of dream . He would like to write sonnets on his beloved instead of passing time in wiping for his beloved. He considers himself grown  with her love. He would like to be called mad in her love rather than an idiot without love for anyone.

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