"Hung up on a Dream"

A couple weeks ago, I was thinking again about the lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest that are quoted on the back of Odessey and Oracle.  Only a portion is given there, but in full, Caliban says:

Be not afeard.  The isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked

I cried to dream again.  (III.ii.131-139)

When I read these lines again, I realized that many of these sentiments are also expressed in "Hung up on a Dream."

The sounds in both are expansive ("The isle is full of noises" "A sweet vibration seemed to fill the air").  Both narrators experience a dream that directs their attention upward ("then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches" "Until I woke up only finding ev'rything was just a dream... [of men who] showed me strangest, clouded sights above"), and they later desire to experience this dream again ("when I waked / I cried to dream again" "now I'm hung up on a dream").  More generally, both pieces also describe the calming effects of sound ("Sounds and sweet airs that give delight" "sounds unheard... which gently touched my aching mind / And soothed the wanderings of my troubled brain").

In Claes Johansen's Hung up on a Dream (p. 30), Argent explains that Shakespeare's "language spoke to me; it had an indefinable, spiritual quality."  In this instance, it seems to have influenced Argent's own words.