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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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 over nature. This thought of gaining superiority made humans arrogant by which
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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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ashes of depression. The melancholy experienced by a writer is often clear between the lines of their work‚ and the tone taken indicates a deep struggle occurring on the other side of the paper. Out of the readings we have discussed so far‚ “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold‚ “September 1‚
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In "Dover Beach‚" Matthew Arnold’s use of diction and imagery reveal the overall pessimistic tone of the poem. The use of diction brings the reader toward two separate tones‚ yet they uniquely contribute to general feeling of pessimism that Matthew Arnold portrays. In the first stanza‚ the "calm" sea brings a feeling of peacefulness. Since it is not turbulent‚ but rather serene and still‚ the calmness of the sea evokes feelings of harmony. This tone is set to show the value and possibilities of
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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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"Dover Bitch": Mockery of Victorian Values in "Dover Beach" Hecht’s parody "Dover Bitch" is a mockery of Victorian values shown in "Dover Beach"‚ as well as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates the speech‚ ideas and symbols in "Dover Beach.". The first evidence of Hecht’s mockery is of speech at the beginning when he writes " There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl......All over‚ etc.‚ etc.". He take the soft calming words of Arnold and gives them a harsh New Jersey accent. His
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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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English 2342 20 April 2011 Dover Beach and Fahrenheit 451 The classic poem‚ Dover Beach‚ written by Matthew Arnold‚ is a statement about losing faith as a result of enlightenment. In an emotionally charged scene in Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ fireman Guy Montag reads the poem aloud to his wife and her friends. Bradbury could have chosen any piece of literature for Montag to read as a means of unveiling his collection of hoarded books and his newfound interest in reading them. Bradbury
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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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