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Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds of several words in a group.

Quote: "Grains of the golden sand--" (Poe, 15).
Analysis: Poe uses alliteration of the letter G, in the words "golden" and "grains". He uses these words/ sounds to emphasize the desire for both love and the sand.

Symbol: a person, place, object or activity that stands for something beyond itself.

Quote: "How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, /While I weep -- while I weep!" (Poe, 16-18).
Analysis: Here, though it does not physically state it, he is comparing the sand to time. Sand symbolizes time, by relating to the sands of an hourglass. As the sand slips out of his hands, he really sees it as the time with his lover slowly falling from within reach.

Repetition: a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.

Quote: "But a dream within a dream" (Poe, 11&24).
Analysis: This repeated line is at the end of each stanza gives the poem a sense of unity. it stresses the significance of the question the author is asking, which leaves the reader with something to think about.

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The structure of this poem consists of 2 separate stanzas, both depicting separate, narrowly related scenes and is written from the author's first-person point of view. In the first stanza, the author is parting from a lover, saying how their time together was like a dream. "Take this kiss upon the brow! / And, in parting from now, / Thus let me avow --" (Poe, 1-3). He kisses his lover and parts from her, implying that this was all a dream within a dream; significantly, Poe even states that possibly everything is just a dream within a dream. The first stanza sets a calming scene; the talk of lovers and hope creates a solemn, but passionate mood. His writing allows the reader to feel the pain his heart is feeling. The second stanza depicts the author standing at the shoreline with grains of sand running through his fingers. A mood of anguish and torment can be felt as he wonders if he can save but one grain of sand from being swept away in the surf. "O God! can I not grasp /Them with a tighter clasp?" (Poe, 19-20).These sands represent the image of an hourglass, and as the sands fall, the time he has with the memory of his lover runs out. In this stanza, there is more exclamation from the author as he compares himself to the beach as waves crash at the surface; being beaten and struck by time.Overall, this poem shows the internal and external perceptions of time; therefore, twisting the reader's perception into 2 degrees, which are "seeming" and "seeing". He wrote this poem after his unofficial fiance, Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, denied his marriage offer.

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1. Rhyme
Definition: Words rhyme when the sounds of their accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are identical.
Quote: " Nightly, from their azure towers , To keep watch above the flowers," (Poe, 4-5).
This quote shows the literary device of rhyme. Rhyme is often has a pleasing effect on a reader. Rhyme helps the reader grasp the concept of poem and also helps reader remember the poem. This type of rhyme is often seen at the end of each line.
2. Imagery
Definition: The descriptive language used in literature to recreate sensory experiences.
Quote: " To keep watch above the flowers, In the midst of which all day The red sun-light lazily lay",( Poe, 6-8).
This quote shows imagery due to key sensory words. Some of these words include "red sun-light" and "watch above the flowers". Imagery in this poem puts the reader in the place of Edgar Allan Poe. Setting can also be developed by using imagery. In this poem it is seen that the soldiers are looking across a field of flowers while the sky is slowly changing to a deep red color.
3. Personification
Definition: When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics
Quote: " Once it smiled a silent dell" ... "Trusting to the mild-eyed stars", (Poe, 1&3).
These quotes show an example of a personification. By giving the valley a characteristic of a human smile, it describes to the reader that the valley is happy and joyous. Also by giving the stars eyes, it is now no longer putting their trust into the stars but in a person.

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The structure of "The Valley Of Unrest" consists of one long stanza with 27 lines all together. The poem is written in the point of view, of Poe himself. In this poem, Poe is telling of a beautiful and peaceful town before the Civil War destroyed it forever. In 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army. Poe was a soldier for the side of the Confederate, but once Poe left the army he attempted to enlist in United States Military Academy. But was forced to leave due to lack of financial support .This poem takes place during this time of utter chaos and death .But once, every man went away to war, this little valley became a dark and twisted memory of what used to be. " Where the people did not dewll; / They had gone unto the wars", (Poe, 2-3). Before the war people were in peace and serenity, but after  people who left  bring an emptiness to the valley. After the departure of the soldiers, the mood of the poem becomes dark, cold, and full of despair.  "Now each visitor shall confess/ The sad valley's restlessness,"(Poe, 9-10). Each soldier left behind a piece of himself in the stars and grassy fields. Poe describes that the soul of each soldier is still aimlessly searching and nothing in the graveyard, in which the soldier is buried, is frozen in time.

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Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Both of his parents died before he was 3 years old, which resulted in him living as a foster child under the care of John and Frances Allan in Richmond, Virginia. With the money his foster father earned employed as a prosperous tobacco exporter, Poe was sent to the finest boarding schools, later attending the University of Virginia. Yet only after one year of attendance, he was forced to leave due to gambling debts. In 1827, he enlisted in the army, where he began to write his first poems. Edgar Allan Poe is known for his concepts of loss, sadness, and strangeness. These concepts helped him become one of the best known names in poetry for horror and for detective fiction. After his success with "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", his wife, Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847. Poe's depression and sadness then overcame him and in result with no reason left for Baltimore. On October 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe died due to acute congestion of the brain.

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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

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Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sun-light lazily lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless --
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye --
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave: -- from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
They weep: -- from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.