Dover Beach
The poem I chose for this paper was Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. ... Arnolds focus in Dover Beach is on societys anxieties - the grim outcome of the Victorian times. ... Arnold wrote "Dover Beach" with a realistic tone through his use of words and illustrative descriptions. ... This is a way Arnold causes the narrator to give life and emotion to "Dover Beach" by the flow of words such as "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling," giving the reader a sense of motion, and the feel of the sea close by.