Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
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Submitted by wendym on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
After reading through the poem "Dover Beach", I felt that Arnold, the persona or poet, was trying to describe what he felt was wrong with the world. In return he described to his auditor, the person he was talking to, what he thought the world should be like. He described to her a world that was majestic. Throughout this essay I am going to write information from each stanza, which is two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem, to help describe how I came to this conclusion.
In the first eight lines of the first stanza, Arnold described in a very interesting and relaxing way of what a sea is like. He wrote such things as "The sea is calm tonight" and "the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay." From these statements I believe that Arnold was stating that the world should be calm, peaceful and positive. There should not be any changes in the world that are unexpected, it should just flow. The mood changes dramatically in the last six lines of the first stanza. Words such as "grating roar" and "tremulous cadence" show a more negative tone. I think that he was trying to make us visualize the world as he saw it. Then in these lines, "Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin,", Arnold was showing us that the pebbles were like negative mishaps in the world. Everyday negative things happen and although they eventually get better, they are bound to get bad again. In the last line of the first stanza he wrote, "Begin, and cease, and then again begin". Arnold was using repetition of the vowel sound or simply assonance to emphasis the importance of this line. He wanted us to realize that the world is not a calm and positive place as he thought it should be. In fact, it was unpredictable and negative things happen more so than positive ones.
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