Dover Beach

Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach, an insightful poem, warns its readers about the dangers of the world in an attempt to make them feel better. The poem compares the harsh reality of its readers’ isolation in the world to various images of oceanic scenes. In his first stanza, Arnold emphasizes the importance of distinguishing the difference between illusion and reality through his constant change from a beautiful to disheartening tone. Arnold’s “Sea of Faith” metaphorically attributes the decline of religion as a priority to new scientific discoveries and the constant revolutions in Europe surrounding him at the time. Dover Beach offers salvation from this dismal world without religion through the only sufficient thing left: truth. The truth, though…

The Battle of Faith and Science: Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" study Matthew Arnold, in his adolescence, sometimes in Christianity, is apparently out of moral reasons and reasons, and has no spiritual suffering from Carlyle and Ross Experience, and turns to agnosticism. After that, he spent a long time trying to tell people this in a polite, gentlemanly way, not to make them too sad. This most influential Victorian has a complex relationship with two very different religious leaders, liberal…

In the poem, Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold, tone, symbols, and imagery greatly help the author to protrude his view of society in the mid 1800’s. The author sets the start of the poem to a soothing landscape and peaceful interpretation of the sea and Europe. He uses various adjectives to help describe the scenario he wants to set, by using phrases like “tranquil bay”. The poet captivates the reader by the calmness and serenity of the deep blue sea and the “Glimmering and vast…cliffs…

Allie Miller Mrs. Shirley Jefferds English 102-6 14 March 2018 Dover Beach- Rough Draft In the famous poem, “Dover Beach”, the author, Matthew Arnold, deceives readers into thinking that the speaker is actually calm and at peace. However, if we examine the poem attentively, we notice that Arnold worries about life and its meaning. The mood of the poem changes from one of serenity to one of sadness. Arnold creates the mood by utilizing different types of descriptive adjectives, imagery, similes,…

1. The speaker's tone will change in a few ways in the first stanza of the poem "Dover Beach." The first change will come when the poem shifts from a third person’s view concerning the scenery in the first ‘five’ lines to directly addressing a listener. “Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! ... Listen! you hear” ... The tone of the beginning of the stanza is peaceful an calm, and uses words like "tranquil," "calm," and "sweet", the scene is described as "fair". In the second part of the…

The stanza derived from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” is representative and reflective of the loss of faith in 19th century, Victorian England. In the stanza, “The Sea of Faith” a metaphor for the retreat from religious ideologies. Throughout the stanza Arnold is referring to this metaphor, as when he states that it “was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore.” I think that the poet is claiming that the religious beliefs that he and others have had were once very important to them. The…

The Victorian era of England was a monumental time of change in all aspects of life, from scientific revolutions from minds such as Charles Darwin to the tremendous strides in technology that began the industrial revolution. Matthew Arnold, a famous poet of the Victorian era, laments these changes of society and their effects on the religious community in his renowned poem, Dover Beach, through his use of eloquent imagery to create a magnificent scene of the sublime ocean and powerful metaphors…

Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian-based novel by Ray Bradbury, the novel is about a man, Guy Montag, living in a world where books are banned. Montag and an old literature professor, Mr. Faber, work together with inspiration from a strange girl, Clarisse, to discover why books are important. “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold is a poem that is mentioned in Fahrenheit 451 during the time that Montag reveals his interest in books to his wife, Mildred, and her friends. Both the poem and novel are fantastic…

Fahrenheit 451: A Revelation in The Sea of Faith Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury discusses the dangers of a society without authenticity and human connections. Bradbury and Matthew Arnold, author of the poem Dover Beach, both offer criticisms on this fruitless and idle way of life. In Fahrenheit 451, the world in which Guy Montag and Mildred live has chosen simple pleasures and mere distractions over intellect and free thinking, which are “evil.” Dover Beach complements these themes by…

Ian McEwan chose Matthew Palmer’s “Dover Beach” because the poem mirrors Henry Perowne’s experiences during one fateful day. The poem is about a man who is grounded in religion and believes in the existence of god and the goodness of people. Religion speaks to tpoet because it provides him with meaning, and a sense of what is right and wrong. But, throughout the poem, Palmer begins to question his own faith and wonder if there really is a god. Henry Perowne, the protagonist in Saturday, finds…