Dover Beach Essay
“Dover Beach” is a deeply melancholic poem, with reference to “Kraken” and “Relic”
Dover Beach is a deeply melancholic poem however Relic is also melancholic with a nihilistic approach; meanwhile Kraken refers to romantic sadness. All three poems relate to sadness and offer a different perspective of it.
Relic is a first person monologue as is Dover Beach that is not specifically directed to anyone, Kraken even though it is a monologue it carries a disembodied voice which mirrors better visual image as the “narrator” of the poem has the capability of ‘seeing’ everything.
Dover Beach, Relic and Kraken hold a sense of isolation, both in terms of God and the world in general. Overall the tone of the poems consists on melancholy; especially in lines with loneliness, sadness and what gives life to Dover Beach is the contrast with love. In Dover beach we can see that the poet is talking about only one thing that there is to hang on in the world, which is essentially not worth living. “The eternal note of sadness in” which compares itself to the sound of the sea which is the only present, meaning there is loneliness and “Ah, love, let us be true” these two phrases implicate that there is nothing to hang on to, except what might be love. In Kraken we see the isolation from the world in “There hath he lain for ages and will lie” in the poem there is a lot of sense of inactiveness which relates to life having nothing to offer. In Relic “Continue the beginning” gives an impression of cero worth to life, as it is only a repeating of the lonely meaningless journey that takes place through out it. All poems show a lack of hope for the poet; in Dover Beach this last hope is that love can save you.
Dover Beach has a calm mood apart from sadness. We can see this in the first stanza which has a lot of visual imagery nevertheless in the first two lines we see loneliness, calmness and peacefulness. “The sea is calm tonight – The tide is full, the moon lies fair”.
Dover Beach is a deeply melancholic poem however Relic is also melancholic with a nihilistic approach; meanwhile Kraken refers to romantic sadness. All three poems relate to sadness and offer a different perspective of it.
Relic is a first person monologue as is Dover Beach that is not specifically directed to anyone, Kraken even though it is a monologue it carries a disembodied voice which mirrors better visual image as the “narrator” of the poem has the capability of ‘seeing’ everything.
Dover Beach, Relic and Kraken hold a sense of isolation, both in terms of God and the world in general. Overall the tone of the poems consists on melancholy; especially in lines with loneliness, sadness and what gives life to Dover Beach is the contrast with love. In Dover beach we can see that the poet is talking about only one thing that there is to hang on in the world, which is essentially not worth living. “The eternal note of sadness in” which compares itself to the sound of the sea which is the only present, meaning there is loneliness and “Ah, love, let us be true” these two phrases implicate that there is nothing to hang on to, except what might be love. In Kraken we see the isolation from the world in “There hath he lain for ages and will lie” in the poem there is a lot of sense of inactiveness which relates to life having nothing to offer. In Relic “Continue the beginning” gives an impression of cero worth to life, as it is only a repeating of the lonely meaningless journey that takes place through out it. All poems show a lack of hope for the poet; in Dover Beach this last hope is that love can save you.
Dover Beach has a calm mood apart from sadness. We can see this in the first stanza which has a lot of visual imagery nevertheless in the first two lines we see loneliness, calmness and peacefulness. “The sea is calm tonight – The tide is full, the moon lies fair”.