Hawthorn & Poe on Dreams

Hawthorn's "Young Goodman Brown" and Poe's Dream within a Dream are Both very Similar and different in the following ways. The author uses the idea of dreaming to make us think if it's real or not. Both stories gave me a feeling that a dream can be so real yet a fantasy. They also had in common because they both sounds like they are waking up from a bad ream. Also in both settings theirs always a women to which they refer as their loved ones. The story and poem have very similar description but one may talk more about their beliefs then the other.
  The poem starts off with the speaker talking to his ladylove. She says that all his day has been a dream. he agrees with the statement including that all he sees and seems is a dream within a dream. In the second part of the poem he is at a beach hold a handful of sand wishing he can have a tighter grip of the sand. He starts screaming to God uncertain of why he cries to God. I think the poem relates to young Goodman brown because in the poem the speaker keeps repeating words such as a dream within a dream. I think this symbolizes how he can be dreaming all alone that its not real or if its just some fantasy. I think this relates to young Goodman brown because it sounds like hes waking up from a bad dream. This story made me feel like it was young Goodman all over again. This poem did bring up that dreams can feel so real life but sometimes even just a fantasy.
 While in Young Goodman brown he does talk more about the beliefs he has while in the poem it only goes into detail with God. Young Goodman brown does describe how his parents were once Christians and in the poem the speaker is crying out to God wishing the sand wont flow away with the water. Both stories do have allusions because the staff soon becomes into a snake and allusion can be described in the poem as the speaker described that may be everything we see is always just a dream within a dream.
   In the setting of the story young Goodman brown and in the poem they both take places somewhere dark because its night time. In young Goodman brown the reason why he started thinking to much was because he was all alone in a dark scene where he started thinking to himself. while in the poem the speaker was talking to a lady and soon he starts overthinking about reality being just dreams. Due to both of them over thinking they both start showing the audience how dreaming can take over your mind in just seconds.
  In conclusion Young Goodman brown and dream within a dream both have similarities and differences that make the theme of the story very interesting and confusing. I think both stories make us think more about our thoughts ad how our mind can change at any second because of what we think. Every step we take is because of the way we thin and that probably why young Goodman brown and the speaker have something in mind that cause them to act and think the way they do. Both stories have a way of explaining a dream.