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    Analysis of "Dover Beach"

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    Analysis of “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) wrote “Dover Beach” during or shortly after a visit he and his wife made to the Dover region of southeastern England‚ the setting of the poem‚ in 1851. The first stanza opens with the description of a nightly scene at the seaside. The speaker calls to his beloved to come to the window‚ to share the visual beauty of the scene. The speaker projects his own feelings of melancholy on to the sound of “the grating roar/Of pebbles‚ which the waves

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    that love exists. A perfect example of how the views of love can be drastically different can be illustrated by these two poems; “Dover Beach” and “Dover Bitch”. “Dover Beach”‚ was written by Matthew Arnold in the 19th century. The love Arnold speaks of in his poem is a deep love that is indestructible. “Dover Bitch” was written by Anthony Hecht‚ in response to “Dover Beach” and refers to love as being a joke and nonexistent. Arnold can be portrayed as being a hopeless romantic while Hecht is skeptical

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    Dover Beach Modernism

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    Through the controversy of romanticism and modernism in Dover Beach‚ Arnold allows for readers to question the importance of life and what it means to fulfill human destiny while harnessing the quintessence of who you are. Arnold gives vivid imagery of the beautiful coastline bordering France to present the challenging contrast that we have the choice to either find fear in the future because of its uncertainty‚ or to embrace the beauty of the present because it is all we have in each moment. In

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    Dover Beach Tone

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    Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold is a poem from the late 1800’s‚ which discusses a man’s view on emotion‚ life‚ and religion. The author Matthew Arnold portrays this message by using action and the setting of Dover Beach. He alludes to Dover Beach in many ways in order to talk about his personal views. An example is‚ when the author starts talking about the physical setting of Dover Beach‚ which he uses to allude to the emotions that he feels. The author then goes on to discuss the human condition

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    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

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    Analysis of Dover Beach

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    Reflection on “Dover Beach” Human interpretation and comprehension of faith and religion have undergone constant change over the course of time. I feel that “Dover Beach” was written as an elegy to convey the author’s‚ Matthew Arnold‚ somber feelings regarding how man’s abandonment of the doctrine of religion‚ with the help of Victorianism and the Industrial Revolution‚ is only a vain act against an all-powerful nature. Arnold’s overall theme of how religion and faith should remain in humanity

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    Explore how Matthew Arnold uses language to give us insights into the life of modern man in ‘Dover Beach’. The life of modern mankind is presented very negatively and ignorantly by Matthew Arnold in the poem Dover Beach by the fact that religious faith evanesce with the Industrial Revolution. Arnold creates the image of the dark future for the people without unwavering faith or religion. Modern men are bastardised with the thought that new the Industrial Revolution will give them advantage

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    Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full‚ the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand; Glimmering and vast‚ out in the tranquil bay. [5] Come to the window‚ sweet is the night-air! Only‚ from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land‚ Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back‚ and fling‚ [10] At their return‚ up the

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    Dover Beach Tone

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    Dover Beach‚ Matthew Arnold‚ “The sea is calm tonight.”(1) The very first line suggests a poem to inspire tranquility in the reader; but‚ that tranquility is but an illusion: “Listen! You hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back and fling...”(9-10) Does this feel like the tone of a peaceful poem? The entire piece plays with the reader’s senses‚ never allowing them to get quite comfortable in their conclusion of what the tone is meant to be‚ as it is ever shifting. Each Stanza further

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    Word choice‚ denotation and connotation Word choice refers to the poet’s poetic diction. In ‘Dover Beach’‚ Matthew Arnold uses formal diction. He chose his words carefully. When he says that the world does not give us ‘love’‚ he means that the world lacks imagination and can know very little about time past‚ which is crystallized in ancient literature like a leaf in amber‚ knowledge of which is an essential precondition for love. He does not mean that love does not exist‚ but that it comes only

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