Part A Author Edgar Allen Poe brings together the themes of mortality and the passage of time. How
does the interaction of these two themes impact the reader?
The passage of time gives the reader the impression that time passes quickly
but reality is solid
The passage of time gives the reader the impression that people will live on
through their children
The passage of time gives the reader the impression that the poet is old and
speaks from experience
D
This passage of time gives the reader the impression that life is fleeting and
mortality is inevitable
Which lines from the poem BEST support the response in Part A?
A
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
B
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
с
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
D
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem