Answer:
The point of view used in this poetic, short story is first-person, this point of view hints itself by using pronouns like I, me, my, and we which tells the story from the character's point of view, like a first-hand experience. The usage of first-person perspective makes the reader feel close to the protagonist and in the action. In "Was It a Dream" we can confirm the point of view because of the pronouns found in every line of the story, "I had loved her madly!", or "I was alone, perfectly alone. So I crouched in a green tree and hid myself there completely amid the thick and somber branches. I waited, clinging to the stem, like a shipwrecked man does to a plank." which all include the first-person point of view pronouns I, we, me, and my. But what if this short story used a different point of view such as objective or omniscient?
If this same story was told the same way, but with a different point of view, what would it look like? If this point of view was omniscient we would know everything, the narrator and reader knows what everyone is thinking and feeling throughout the tale and reveals all of that information to the reader. If "Was It a Dream" was an omniscient point of view the story would have contained pronouns like they, he, she, them, they're, and so on, these specific pronouns are used instead of first-person pronouns because the narrator is not a part of the story unlike a first hand experience form the protagonist. Think of it as if the narrator was watching everything from a cloud up above and could see and know everything that was unfolding in the story's plot. The story would change drastically because we would know what the sick women, the graveyard skeletons, priest, and other side characters in this story were thinking and feeling as well as the original protagonist.
