Poe is the man

Take this kiss upon thy brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow—You are not wrong, to deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handGrains of the golden sand—How few! yet how they creepThrough my fingers to the deep,While I weep—while I weep!O God! can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?O God! can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.poetry.com/lovepoems/lovepoem.asp?id=43

I think poe is trying to say that love is like a dream that seems all to good but can turn into a tragedy and can mess with our heads. The poem itself is a metaphor in that laove can seem like a dream.


Love is like gravity because at one point you seem weightless and carefree until you get slamed back into reality