Poetry Précis for Mathew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold’s dramatic monologue titled “Dover Beach” (written in 1851/2 but publish in 1867) reveals the repetitive tragedy one can see when observing a natural wonder like the ocean that is a representation of all of life itself as well as the newfound conflict of his time that was religion versus science. He expresses his observations of life and sadness by using personification and imagery to depict a tranquil scene of the ocean only to have
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Critical Appreciation This particular speech has become more famous than most of Shakespeare’s soliloquies and is quoted on a daily basis. The meaning of the soliloquy is quite simple. Hamlet is on the verge of committing suicide and starts by questioning whether or not it is better to live or die. When Hamlet utters the pained question‚ “To be‚ or not to be: that is the question: / Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune / Or to take arms against
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Critical appreciation ‘One art’ Elizabeth Bishop’s six-stanza villanelle ‘one art’ is a misleading poem dealing with the struggle of mastering the issue of loss and how to interpret it. Through the use of a rather casual tone and understatement‚ as well as crescendo stanzas‚ Bishop succeeds to mislead the reader and bring the dramatic last stanza as an unexpected outcome‚ quite in contrast with the rest of the poem. My analysis will try to show how through the use of language‚ tone and poetic devices
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lot of tensions. There are only a few poems in which the contradiction seems to be resolved and the poet and the priest are in harmony. Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” is one of such poems. “Pied Beauty” points to poet’s power of sensuous appreciation of the beauty of the things around‚ his poetic concentration‚ compassion and above all‚ his unquestioning faith in God. All nature is good;
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Chuck Jones probably didn’t know that during the creation of “The Dover Boys” he would create an animation style that would later be used by future animation artists‚ especially Robert Cannon from the United Productions of America (UPA). Chuck Jones was known for showing the emotion of cartoons with abstract animation and was the first to use the “smear” style of animation with “The Dover Boys”. One would say that you could see a lot of Chuck Jones style with the UPA cartoon “ Gerald McBoing Boing”
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Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins This beautiful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins runs on a single theme- Nature and its creator‚ God. He writes about the diversity and beauty of nature and how it changes everyday. Hopkins sees the power and creation of God through nature. This poem describes his wonder and awes at the creation of such an extraordinary and ever changing course that is nature. ‘Glory be to God for dappled things‚ For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow‚’ He uses
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"Dover Beach" by Arnold: Irony‚ Images‚ and Illusions In the poem "Dover Beach" by: Matthew Arnold there is a lot of irony‚ appeal to the auditory and visual sense‚ and illusions. The tone in this poem is very sad and dismal‚ but he shows us how to keep faith and hope in spite of that and how important being honest‚ true‚ and faithful to one another‚ really is. Throughout this poem ‚ Arnold mentions all of these traits and ties them all together. The irony in this poem is the main plot
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Introduction The Dover Castle is often referred to as the “key of England” because it has been around for so long and so much of the British history relates to this gigantic fortress. It is the largest castle in England and it is located on the coastal portion of the island on a high cliff at the closest point to mainland Europe. Even before the creation of the castle‚ the location has always been popular for building forts for defensive purposes. There is evidence that clans in the Iron Age were
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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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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely
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