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    Dover Beach

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    Impression of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold James Ferguson ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Prof. Concetta Williams April 22‚ 2013 INTRODUCTION Dover Beach is a lyrical poem‚ and although it refers to a calm sea awakening to crash upon the rocks upon the rocks on the shore‚ it is actually referring to the insanity of men and the ever changing state of the world. Throughout this paper I will be explaining how this poem made an impact on me. This poem uses many of the tools of the poet

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    Dover Beach

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    The poem "Dover Beach" written by Matthew Arnold is about a human misery. Nature especially the sea is used in order to draw a comparison between the fights of nature and the human misery. The poem consists of four stanzas which have a different amount of lines. The first stanza consists of 14 lines‚ the second of six‚ the third of eight and the last line of nine lines. The rhyme scheme is very irregular. For example‚ in the first eight lines of the poem it is abacdbdc. The first stanza can

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    AnnuAl RepoRt 2011/2012 1 Ministry of Agriculture‚ Water & Forestry ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Vision “ To be recognized as the leading contributor to food security‚ agro-production competitiveness‚ increased and equitable access to our natural resources for improved livelihood‚ wellbeing and wealth for all.” Mission “ To promote and manage the sustainable utilization and development of agricultural‚ water and forestry resources for a prosperous Namibia through stakeholder partnerships

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    Analysis "Dover Beach"

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    Analysis of "Dover Beach" The Victorian Age was a different time period. It was the beginning of a new civilization based on industry‚ time‚ and money. The values brought about by the changing times were hard for the British to cope with. Conflicting ideas of science and religion‚ education and work‚ and not reflecting upon actions‚ caused confusion that was associated with the Victorian Age. Mathew Arnold observed the problem of the changing times and sought after answers to the problems that

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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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    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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    Charles Fandale LIT 2030 Dwindling Faith Faith is a strong force. It drives people everyday from normal living‚ to radical acts. Matthew Arnold describes faith through symbolism in his poem Dover Beach. Mankind had faith at one point‚ full and glorious and proud. Just like a cliff though‚ the water can erode the mountainside little by little. Arnold begins the poem with his description of the white cliffs on the coast of France and England; both facing each other‚ one now without the light

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    To begin‚ Dover Beach expresses the relationship of reality versus illusion. In Dover Beach‚ Arnold tells the readers that he want his lover and himself to be honest and more truthful to one another because Arnold know that the world is not everything it seems to be and that “Hath really neither joy‚ nor love‚ nor light‚ nor certitude‚ nor peace‚ nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain‚ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight‚ Where ignorant armies clash by night” (5‚5-9)

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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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    At first glance‚ Anthony Hecht’s "Dover Bitch" is not only funnier than Matthew Arnold’s "Dover Beach"‚ but also describes a more "liberated" relationship; the poem is as free from what some would consider stuffy Victorian morals as it is from references to Sophocles. Hecht’s urbane and flippant persona tends to win over its audience‚ whether they find irony in the poem that adds to their appreciation of "Dover Beach"‚ appreciate the poem as a criticism of Victorian morals‚ or laugh at Arnold’s apparent

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