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    The document discusses the function of dreams in romantic dream poems. It explains that dream visions reveal knowledge or truths not available in a normal waking state. These genres became popular in medieval Europe when dreams were seen as having divine origins. They reemerged during the Romantic era when dreams were viewed as creative gateways to the imagination beyond rational thought. Typically, these poems follow a structure where the narrator recounts falling asleep, dreaming, and waking, with the dream addressing concerns from their waking life through imaginative landscapes that provide resolutions.

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    The document discusses the function of dreams in romantic dream poems. It explains that dream visions reveal knowledge or truths not available in a normal waking state. These genres became popular in medieval Europe when dreams were seen as having divine origins. They reemerged during the Romantic era when dreams were viewed as creative gateways to the imagination beyond rational thought. Typically, these poems follow a structure where the narrator recounts falling asleep, dreaming, and waking, with the dream addressing concerns from their waking life through imaginative landscapes that provide resolutions.

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    The document discusses the function of dreams in romantic dream poems. It explains that dream visions reveal knowledge or truths not available in a normal waking state. These genres became popular in medieval Europe when dreams were seen as having divine origins. They reemerged during the Romantic era when dreams were viewed as creative gateways to the imagination beyond rational thought. Typically, these poems follow a structure where the narrator recounts falling asleep, dreaming, and waking, with the dream addressing concerns from their waking life through imaginative landscapes that provide resolutions.

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    The function of dream in romantic dream-poems

    A dream vision or visio is a literary device in which a dream or vision is recounted as


    having revealed knowledge or a truth that is not available to the dreamer or visionary in a
    normal waking state. While dreams occur frequently throughout the history of literature,
    visionary literature as a genre began to flourish suddenly, and is especially characteristic
    in early medieval Europe. In both its ancient and medieval form, the dream vision is often
    felt to be of divine origin. The genre reemerged in the era of Romanticism, when dreams
    were regarded as creative gateways to imaginative possibilities beyond rational
    calculation.

    This genre typically follows a structure whereby a narrator recounts his experience of
    falling asleep, dreaming, and waking, and the story is often an allegory. The dream,
    which forms the subject of the poem, is prompted by events in his waking life that are
    referred to early in the poem. The ‘vision’ addresses these waking concerns through the
    possibilities of the imaginative landscapes offered by the dream-state. In the course of the
    dream, the narrator, often with the aid of a guide, is offered perspectives that provide
    potential resolutions to his waking concerns. The poem concludes with the narrator
    waking, determined to record the dream – thus producing the poem. The dream-vision
    convention was widely used in European literature from late Latin times until the 15th
    century.

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