The media works as a machine for the public to use either to learn information or contact others.
A Ficitious Name, an alias,
3rd person is writing about someone, 2nd is switching off, and 1st is themselves taking about themselves
To describe trying to hold sand, Edgar Allan Poe uses these pair of rhyming words:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! Yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep.
The author is describing his lost of hope "In a night, or in a day / In a vision, or in none". He is talking about a goodbye, a sad moment where he feels the loss of his illusion, like grains of sand falling from his hands, falling deep while he weeps, he cries of sadness for the goodbye.