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Elective English—III

Notes 11. Give a short note on the literary devices used in A Dream within a Dream.
12. Is the poem A Dream within a Dream about the nature of reality or the nature of loss? Can it
be about both?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. 19 January 1809 2. Truth
3. Paul Elmer More 4. 1849
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2.13 Further Readings

Books Barnes, Nigel. A Dream within a Dream: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Peeples, Scott. The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

Online links http://www.rtlibrary.org/poetalesofterror.pdf
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/lit/poe.htm
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.06.x.html

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