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last night as i was sleeping
Title: last night as i was sleeping
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1014 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
last night as i was sleeping
Last Night As I Was Sleeping
By Antonio Machado
(Version by Robert Bly)
Antonio Machado’s “Last Night As I Was Sleeping” in a literal sense, is a poem
depicting one man’s dreams throughout the night. However, upon a closer examination
of the literature, one will find the poem to be more an expression of the deeper current of
life, often only experienced at night through one’s own dreams. Furthermore, the poem
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…showed last 75 words of 1014 total…also a poem that
imparts hope and peace upon the reader. Machado makes wonderful use of metaphor and
illusion, imagery, and the repeating of crucial words to accomplish this. The poem urges
its reader to drink from the well of life, live by the light of the world, and truly enjoy life.
Machado suggests that all the worries of the life are meaningless, and all one truly needs
in life is God inside his heart.
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