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Between Dreams: Ame: Date: Strand/Section

Here are my interpretations of the lines from the poem: 1. The lines refer to dreams emerging from the subconscious mind at sundown to try and manifest, but they must do so at the right time according to some internal schedule or rhythm. 2. These lines suggest that while the dreams and images come unprompted, they seem meaningfully connected or related in some way, like pieces of a larger picture or story. 3. These lines suggest that the silence between dreams may contain insights or explanations for troubling life experiences, like a divorce, crop failure, broken promises, or other difficulties. The silence holds answers that may only become clear with more distance and reflection over time.

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Between Dreams: Ame: Date: Strand/Section

Here are my interpretations of the lines from the poem: 1. The lines refer to dreams emerging from the subconscious mind at sundown to try and manifest, but they must do so at the right time according to some internal schedule or rhythm. 2. These lines suggest that while the dreams and images come unprompted, they seem meaningfully connected or related in some way, like pieces of a larger picture or story. 3. These lines suggest that the silence between dreams may contain insights or explanations for troubling life experiences, like a divorce, crop failure, broken promises, or other difficulties. The silence holds answers that may only become clear with more distance and reflection over time.

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ame: Date:

Strand/Section:

Between Dreams
By: Cirilo Bautista

you ask me, dreams define the lost moments


of our life. They lurk under the subconscious ,
memorizing their lines or reading a novel.
(4) At sundown they swim to the surface to try their luck
at shaking any door open for exit upwards ;
they must find the right time, though-the doors have a schedule.
The flower vendors in Brussels stimulate dreams
with tulips and red roses, while the surfers
in Boracay break the door open with angled twists
and level plops. When the night turns out well the dogs
whine at the porch without let up, dreams slip into
the kitchen to make coffee and plan
their itinerary. Lights dim in the neighborhood.
The highway hums with trucks bound for Aparri.
It is at this point that governments fall, that cars
are stolen from the garage of people eating lunch,
that a clerk marries her doctor, that a man finds
himself naked in a convention hall,
that another picks up golden coins from the street
endlessly, or a gangster is shot
inside a bank: anxiety drives the dreams
backwards in time and covers them in blinking brightness
as though to warn against an impending storm,
and things get cleared up for the clerk and the naked man
about the stories they are to lead, though the gangster
has to fend for himself. There is hardly any
structure here in the sense of entry and closure.
The plot occurs as it occurs, not the product
of probability or premeditation
but desire onrushing. That as a result
people stumble or rise in its wake remains
an exploitable proposition.
At seventy I have not seen an opera
to shake my sensibilities but I know
the rumbling anger or regret’s sweet sorrow.
(5) Everything coming without signal but seemingly
connected, the rhythm being “lost and found,”
“now and then,” “young but foolish,” “ache and burn,”
all the tears and blood of a degutted existence.
(6) You also have to listen to the silence
between dreams-there repose the answer to the divorce,
the corn crop burning, the heart pinned to a promise,
the empty water tank. Years later
you will understand why, seeing a man
emerge from a shoe store, you approach him
and say, “Haven’t I met you somewhere before?”

Activity:
Read the poem. And answer the questions below.

1. What is the poem about?(2 pts.)

2. What is the purpose of the poem: to describe, amuse, entertain, narrate, inform,
express grief, celebrate or commemorate? (2 pts.)

3. What is the tone of the poem? Sad, happy, melancholy, bitter? (2 pts.)

4. Interpret the lines (3 pts.):


“At sundown they swim to the surface to try their luc k
at shaking any door open for exit upwards;
they m ust find the right tim e, though-the doors have a schedule”.

5. Interpret the lines (3 pts.):


“Everything com ing without signal but seem ingly connected,”

6. Interpret the lines (3 pts.):


“You also have to listen to the silence
between dream s-there repose the answer to the divorce,
the corn crop burning, the heart pinned to a prom ise,
the em pty water tank.”

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