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He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.
Aug 6, 2011 · nobody is ever missing. This final stanza is the attempt to combat such lost memory, to wrestle the blackout back to clarity. “Dream Song 29” is a recitation, the kind of thing that gets you through the night to the morning.
Ghastly, with open eyes, he attends, blind. All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears; thinking. But never did Henry, as he thought he did, end anyone and hacks her body up and hide the pieces, where they may be found. He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.
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‘Dream Song 29’by John Berryman is a reality-bending exploration into the mind of “Henry” a terribly sad and troubled man. Throughout this short poem, Berryman’s speakerdescribes Henry’s depression as a weight on his heart that he can’t get rid of. Even when it fades for a moment, it always comes back when Henry hears, sees, or smells something tri...
Within ‘Dream Song 29,’ Berryman uses several themes, such as sadness and violence in addition to perceptions of reality. Throughout the poem, the speaker describes the way that Henry is dealing (or not dealing) with his depression. It’s clear that whatever he’s doing it isn’t working. The sadness won’t leave him and has, through some means, distor...
‘Dream Song 29’ by John Berryman is a three-stanza poem that is separated into sets of six lines, known as sestets. Some of the lines in this poem are more structured than others, approximately four of the three lines in each stanza match up, maintaining a poetic form. For example, line one of the poem is written in iambic pentameter. The same thin...
Berryman makes use of several literary devices in ‘Dream Song 29’. These include but are not limited to personification, alliteration, and imagery. The latter is one of the most important techniques at work in this poem. It can be seen throughout as Berryman uses sights, smells, feelings, and sounds to evoke a certain environment. For example, “the...
Stanza One
‘Dream Song 29’begins with the speaker introducing “Henry,” a terrible sad man on whom this poem will focus. There is something “heavy” on his heart that’s bothering him. A reader should take note of the word “sat” in this line, and interesting use of personification. As the lines continue, the reader gets more details about Henry’s experience with this “thing” but no real idea about what it is. He could not “make good” no matter what he did. The weight was still there and even when it seems...
Stanza Two
In addition to the heavy depression that’s bothering Henry, there is “another thing”. He has it “in mind”. Berryman uses a simile to describe it as a ‘grave Sienese face”. This is a reference to a type of painted portrait, of someone with a reproachful, worried expression on their face. This school of painting was known for its dream-like qualities, a perfect match for ‘Dream Song 29’. Henry knows that the sadness he’s experiencing is always going to be there. Even if 1,000 years passed, the...
Stanza Three
In the third and final stanza of ‘Dream Song 29’ the speaker says that Henry worries that he might’ve “ended” someone, or killed them. He thought he did but he didn’t really do it. Even after saying this, the speaker explores what it is that Henry didn’t do. This is part of the dream-like quality of the poem. It’s unclear what is real and what is fantasy. He thinks he might’ve hacked up someone’s body and hid the pieces where they could be found. But, he knows that he didn’t kill anyone. He “...
The dream-like nature of this poem is similar to that which exists in all 384 other “Dream Songs” that Berryman wrote. But, these are not the only poems to use scrambled, confusing images in order to depict a character’s confused understanding of the world. Other equally thought-provoking poems include: ‘A Dream within a Dream’ by Edgar Allan Poe, ...
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