Break of Day/ The Circular Ruins Stuff

Both the poem, Break of Day and the short story, The Circular Ruins are about dreaming. Break of Day talks about the world being a mental activity, that if people stop dreaming the world could end. The Circular Ruins speaks of a man who dreamed of a man dreaming. This also has to do with the world as a mental activity because a man is imagined through dreaming and this dream comes to life in a way. There is a metaphor in Break of Day that says "And since ideas are not eternal like marble but immortal like a forest or a river" This metaphor is saying that dreams are immortal similar to forests and rivers because dreams are always changing but they are always existent just like forests and rivers.