The Dream by john Donne

This poem juxtaposes emotion of love in dream and in reality it is poem about the lover experience of love in a dream which he finds more warmed than the experience of love in reality. It is poem about comparison of love in a dream and in reality the conclusion that the lovers arrives at is that is that love in dream is  more pleasing experience compared to reality.
The poem begins with the lover confession that in his dream. He loves his beloved more than her loved for herself. Their is an image of his beloved inscribed in his heart and he moves with it as if it were a medal. The lover compares it with a coin just as the impression of the king gives value to a coin , the same way her image in his heart gives value to his life. The lover find dream more acceptable because during dream the sense of honour does not bother him .The lover knows that honour weakness spirit of a person who is in love. Since honour restrains a person,the person has to restrain his emotion of love.

The lover discribes what happens with him when the dream is over.the joy which he experiences in meeting his beloved in a dream is  more fantastical than joy in real meeting. The joy in dream is convenient and balanced. That is the reason why the lover would like to meet her again and again in dream .That dream provides him with an escape from harsh reality and pain of life.

In the concluding stanza of the poem the lover informs how he would like to react to his own dream when he gets up. The lover is not willing to repent for his meeting with his beloved in that dream. He would like to pass his time by writing more sonnets on his beloved. He doesn't want to west his life in tears, pains and honour. The lover requests his dream to stay for some more time because true joy act it's best can be experienced only in dream.

The present poem of John Donne uses certain far fetched images giving it a metaphysical touch. The image of coin with the impression of king on it to describe his heart is the best example of it. John Donne through this poem conveys a message that love in dream has more charming effect than love in real life.