Dream Horse (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Dreams, Creative process, Horses, Sleep, Mirrors or lenses, Morning
The Poem
“Dream Horse” is a short poem in free verse; its thirty-six lines are divided into six stanzas of varying lengths. The title suggests that the poem concerns itself with the agency of dreams. On reading this difficult poem for the first time, the reader’s impression almost certainly will be that the poem incorporates dreamlike images to further its examination of reality and the imaginative world as well as the ideas of disintegration and regeneration.
The first stanza begins with the speaker referring to his own reflection, his “looking-glass image.”...
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