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Perchance To Dream: A Poem Rhapsody of Sleep

‘ Perchance to Dream’ A Poem Rhapsody of Sleep. As we spend about one third of our lifetime in sleep, it is little wonder that poets have found it a fertile subject for exploration and inspiration. For the poet sleep is not just a loss of waking consciousness but also the land of dreams and the door to new views of reality. This presentation by Rhapsodize Audio contains musings on sleep by seventeen poets. Some of them viewed sleep as the final termination of consciousness, as in "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen, and others as the doorway to dreams, as in "The Dream" by John Donne. Whatever the view of the particular poet, it is undeniable that the subject of sleep, both as an experience and a metaphor, has inspired much verse of great power and beauty. Listeners are invited to surrender themselves to this smorgasbord of somnolence. Many may find themselves yielding to the temptation to close their eyes and slide into that twilight territory, at once familiar and yet so full of mystery. Performed by Carol Box, Denis Daly, Bob Gonzalez, Elizabeth Klett, Jason Mills, Winston Tharp and Alan Weyman. Lute accompaniments adapted from http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/219102 ,

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