Dream+Variation+Summary



The poem began with a sense of urgency to the poem at its very start. The poem had a question of how to hold a dream. It mentioned how vulnerable dreams are, and how easy it is to lose them. speaker compares nature to himself. Night closes the poem, forming the last image of passing time. He may feel that daylight time is stolen from him by the sun as it withdraws each day. The speaker is imagining himself as the tree. As a tree, he would achieve his dream of flinging his arms, or branches, wide in the sun, and he would have found a peaceful, safe, and more permanent home on Earth.