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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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    Discuss how Arnold uses the Sea as a metaphor to show his growing concern for the faithlessness of man. In Dover Beach‚ Matthew Arnold describes an evening he spent with his lover. The picturesque sights and sounds around him remind him of the pathetic state of man. Arnold was agnostic at the time he wrote the poem and his despair and disillusionment towards religion is highlighted through the poem. He shows the reader how the coming of Scientific reasoning brought about through Imperialism‚ Darwinism

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    Analysis In Stefan Collini’s opinion‚ "Dover Beach" is a difficult poem to analyze‚ and some of its passages and metaphors have become so well known that they are hard to see with "fresh eyes".[3] Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which auditory imagery plays a significant role ("Listen! you hear the grating roar").[4] The beach‚ however‚ is bare‚ with only a hint of humanity in a light that "gleams and is gone".[5] Reflecting the traditional notion

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    "Dover beach" is a beautiful poem written by a famous poet‚ Matthew Arnold; from the romantic era. The poem is melancholic and pessimistic in nature and shows human misery through the ages. The diction changes as the poem progresses‚ from the beginning till the end‚ soft and loving to hard and rough‚ respectively. The images are centered around the ocean‚ this is to show the analogy that life can be both turbulent as well as placid. The time that the poem occurs is through the night‚ having mystery

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    Poffenroth EN 115 23 October 2012 Essay Two: The theme of ‘Illusion versus Reality’ in Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ ‘Dover Beach’ is a poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. The locale of the poem is the English ferry port of Dover Kent‚ facing Calais‚ France. This was the place where Matthew Arnold honeymooned in 1851 (Wikipedia Contributors). In Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’‚ the speaker draws visual imagery to show that what is generally perceived is false and hence an illusion

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    Dover Beach” ENG125 Debora Zeringue July 15‚ 2013 “Dover Beach”‚ written by Matthew Arnold‚ is about a beach that is really beautiful‚ but holds much deeper significance than what meets the eye. “Matthew Arnold presents a very real theme of love and magnificence in his poem. He creates a scene of beauty among the sea and shores‚ mixed with night and moonlight” (Harrison). He also presents us with underlying misery‚ which is easily over looked and disregarded. Arnold writes of love and loss

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    Dover Beach Essay In the symbolic poem “Dover Beach” written by Matthew Arnold the main idea is that of change. The poet uses language features and techniques such as assonance‚ extended metaphor and adjectives as well as using symbolism. The effect of this is to decorate the poem and to enhance the way the main idea of science overthrowing religion is being shown. The poet‚ Matthew Arnold‚ uses descriptive language‚ language techniques and symbolism to dramatically enhance the poem‚ titled ‘Dover

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    Dover Beach Mathew Arnold Time and Place 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. They had married in June of that year. A draft of the first two stanzas of the poem appears on a sheet of paper he used to write notes for another work‚ "Empedocles on Etna‚" published in 1852. The town of Dover is closer to France than any other port city in England. The body

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    The Poem “Dover Beach” is a dramatic monologue of thirty-seven lines‚ divided into four unequal sections or “paragraphs” of fourteen‚ six‚ eight‚ and nine lines. In the title‚ “Beach” is more significant than “Dover‚” for it points at the controlling image of the poem. On a pleasant evening‚ the poet and his love are apparently in a room with a window affording a view of the straits of Dover on the southeast coast of England‚ perhaps in an inn. The poet looks out toward the French coast‚ some

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    Peaceful Dover beach‚ which was calm the night when Arnold was there‚ showed us the difficulty of accomplishing something. By using ideational structure full of metaphors and making each stanza to have its own characteristic‚ Arnold effectively transferred the theme of the poem. The poetry starts with the description of Dover beach at a moment‚ which would not last forever‚ directed us to the sadness or disappointment that he would reveal later in poetry. The first stanza is very much about

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