Poe is not the first writer to compare life to "a dream within a dream." What does this phrase mean, and what does this comparison reveal about the nature of existence? Cite evidence from this text, your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.

The poem is written by Edgan Allan Poe and he views existence as a dream. The poem explain man existence as just an illusion that does not last but will get fade away with time because everything happens within a short moment and nothing is permanent. He talks about how life moves very fast and before one could realize anything it looks as though its a dream.

Life does not wait for any man everything is time bound when things are not done or achieved when it ought to be one becomes a dreamer as it just like a dream that time moves like a lightning.