Question

Does the poem “A Dream Within a Dream.” By Edgar Allan Poe contain anastrophe, metonymy, synecdoche or hyperbole?

Answer 1

Hint: This poem depicts Neruda's grief for his lost love and the pain he experiences in her absence on a conceptual level. He remembers the nights they spent together beneath the same sky as he gazes at the expanse of the night sky, and his grief grows as he remembers.

Complete answer:
The poem emphasises its status as a poem throughout (for example, the title admits that the author "Can Write"), and the writing process serves as a trip for Neruda to mourn his loss and move on. The last stanza, in particular, demonstrates this:
         “Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
          and these the last verses that I write for her.”
The following are some of the poem's prominent language elements:
1) Repetition: One example of repetition is the title sentence ("Tonight I can write the saddest lines"), for example, is repeated three times throughout the poem, giving it a cadence and circular movement, almost like a beating drum. This shows how the poet returns to the same thoughts about his lost love over and over.
2) Personification: An example of personification is in the second stanza:
           “The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.”
The poet's deep sense of how chilly the night is without the human warmth of his love is conveyed by giving the stars the human trait of being able to shudder.

Note: "Love is so short, forgetting is so long," one of Neruda's most famous lines, similarly accentuates his sense of loss, noting that time seems to pass so fast in happiness, whereas it seems to stretch on forever in despair.