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 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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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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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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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” 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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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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