A Dream of a Brother (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Bly
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Dreams, Brothers, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Sleep
The Poem
“A Dream of a Brother” consists of twenty lines divided into five unrhymed quatrains written on an iambic pentameter base. That this is a dream poem, or a dreamed meditation, is made immediately clear both by the title and in the first line: “I fall asleep, and dream. . . .” This fact is important structurally and thematically. Bly has said that he began the original version of what finally became this poem by imagining his own childhood as having been made up of two individual personalities, “one of whom had betrayed the other.” It is, therefore, not...
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