Last Night As I Was Sleeping By Antonio Machado (Version by Robert Bly) Antonio Machado’s “Last Night As I Was Sleeping” in a literal sense, is a poem depicting one man’s dreams throughout the night. However, upon a closer examination of the literature, one will find the poem to be more an expression of the deeper current of life, often only experienced at night through one’s own dreams. Furthermore, the poem hopes …showed first 75 words of 1009 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1009 total…also a poem that imparts hope and peace upon the reader. Machado makes wonderful use of metaphor and illusion, imagery, and the repeating of crucial words to accomplish this. The poem urges its reader to drink from the well of life, live by the light of the world, and truly enjoy life. Machado suggests that all the worries of the life are meaningless, and all one truly needs in life is God inside his heart.