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2. THE AUTHOR’S CREDO 

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2. He is saying that it is hard to tell between life and death. Who's to say when someone is dead or alive. You can't tell when the line begins and when it ends. He could also be talking about sleep because it is so close to death. Edgar Allan Poe seen as lot of death in his life and this quote is like his life, i feel. He seemed to like sleep a lot which he related it to death because they are so similar.
3. “You are not wrong, who deem
   That my days have been a dream...
   All that we see or seem“                            
4. A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.”
   Is but a dream within a dream.”        
5.        “Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”