Dreaming in Daylight (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Penn Warren
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Dreams, Mountains, Mountaineering
The Poem
“Dreaming in Daylight” is a poem in free verse; its forty-one lines are divided into twenty unrhymed couplets plus one final, single-line phrase. The title suggests the contradictory images of darkness and light and of nighttime dreaming (in which intuition and emotion have full play) and daydreaming (which connotes rational meditation). Written from the second-person singular point of view, the poem’s only implied persona is poet Robert Penn Warren, who is also the speaker of the poem. Addressing himself as “you,” he recounts to the reader personal...
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