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This paper examines and analyzes the style, form, and thematic vision of Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" as it relates to the struggles between the old order and the modern spirit in nineteenth century life.

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"The themes of "Dover Beach" are several. Above all, the poem laments the collapse of spirituality, religion, and long-standing traditions in the face of an uncertain and threatening modernity. Change of an unstoppable and uncontrollable form is approaching, and Arnold is longingly looking back at the faith-based world that is disappearing."

Tags:arnold, beach, dover, matthew, poetry, Victorian, poem, modern

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This paper compares the way the poems, "Dover Beach", by Matthew Arnold, and "Dover Bitch", by Anthony Hech, treat the subject of love. The paper explains that, while both poems are about love, the type of love each poem is describing is quite different. The paper goes on to discuss the different tones in the poems, which render the poems' descriptions of love very differently. Also discussed is how Hecht makes his poem, "Dover Bitch", a commentary about the confusing desire for love by satirizing Arnold's poem, "Dover Beach".

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""Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold and "Dover Bitch" by Anthony Hecht are poems that on the surface are based on the same subject--love. Though both poems are about love, the poems are not alike. The love that Matthew Arnold describes is a serious one, while the love that Hecht describes is, arguably, not love at all, but simply desire. "Dover Bitch" uses the "Dover Beach" as a platform to speak of love in a tone that is crass and hollow feeling a feeling that has more to do with satisfying a physical desire than with satisfying an emotional desire. Both poets achieve their goals through the use of different tones."

Tags:parody, mockery, romantic, visualization, describe, place, cliffs, england, stability, collapse

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The paper discusses ways in which the modern poem "Dover Bitch" is a parody of "Dover Beach" and why their themes are identical even though the treatment of the themes differs dramatically.

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"Hecht's "The Dover Bitch" interpenetrates the poetic intent of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach". Arnold makes a project of articulating a crisis of faith, though his immediate object of address is his lover. Hecht turns that project on its head, articulating a highly personal experience of the world with both world and lover incidental to the poet's response. In other words, Arnold takes the universe as a manifest subject and Hecht parodies that by focusing on the poor dear who had to hear..."

Tags:Matthew Arnold, Anthony Hecht, cosmology, love

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This paper discusses "Dover Beach" and "The Buried Life," two poems by the Victorian English poet Matthew Arnold which highlight his position between the Romanticists before him and the Modernists who would follow him. The writer discusses the conflict between humanism and traditional Christian beliefs in Arnold's work, and how he seems to voice the human response to both through a sense of desolation in the realization of the inadequacy of his art to express the essential divorce of man from both the spiritual and the natural. After a brief analysis of both poems, the paper concludes that, not surprisingly, not long after writing "Dover Beach," Arnold withdrew to writing Christian responses and criticism.

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"Key in his writing is the divorce in man from his spirituality. It's a concern that he expands to include society's desolation from a Christian God and, more, how the works of man - including Arnold's poetry - are doomed to be insufficient in expressing both the individual's sense of nostalgia for a prelapsarian mode and his yearning for a perhaps impossible-to-recapture state of grace. It's not too much to use Arnold's work to encompass the greater scope of consideration that man's fall into knowledge and experience is irrevocable and, in a way, unforgivable. "

Tags:humanist, immortality, ambivalence, self-pity, hopelessness, faith, Carlyle

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This paper addresses the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold. In this poem, the writer addresses how the Christian faith allows the believer nothing but sorrow and self- delusion, and that the individual should put their trust in love.

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"Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world.

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"Matthew Arnold, in "Dover Beach" (1848?), and Gerard Manley Hopkins, in "God's Grandeur" (1877), are both concerned with the question of the presence of God or religious faith in the world. Neither poet actually asks a question, however, as Arnold sees the "Sea of Faith" withdrawing from the world, while Hopkins enthusiastically perceives God's presence in everything around him. Both poets, however, see human failure to appreciate God as part of the problem of their own times. But where Arnold sees the only option as withdrawal from a world with neither "certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain", Hopkins regrets the blindness of human beings who have come to dissociate themselves from God, even though He is always there in the world. A comparison of the two poems demonstrates not only the difference in their views of religion but the manner in which these ..."

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This essay provides an analysis of Matthew Arnold's haunting poem "Dover Beach." It examines the way in which the internal structure and rhythm of the poem, literary devices such as anaphora, alliteration, and assonance, and the symbolic images of the land and sea interrelate. The overall result is a profoundly melancholy tone that mirrors Arnold's theme that darker currents of despair flow beneath even the most placid of facades.

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"Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1851) centers on the image of the moonlit waters of the English Channel, an image that transcends its immediate physical setting to reflect broader themes of human struggle and private grief. In the mind of the poem's speaker, the ebb and flow of the tides come to symbolize much more than simply the pull of Diana's orb on Neptune's waters. The rhythm of the tides reflects the oscillation of the speaker's emotions, which range from peace and tranquility to passion and joy and finally to the overarching sentiments of melancholy and despair. The structure of the poem itself mirrors this ebb and flow of emotional currents, and its symbolic imagery builds throughout to culminate in the theme that for the speaker, all things bright and beautiful in this world merely belie darker currents of destruction, violence, chaos, and sorrow."

Tags:british, depression, english, fallacy, literature, melancholy, pathetic, romanticism

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"When looking into the poem "Dover Beach," by Matthew Arnold, one can choose not to see the great, white cliffs standing eerily silent in the moonlight, the ancient, icy waves approaching and retreating on the pebbled shore, and even the two figures gazing out the window at the boundless beauty of the scene. However, it is difficult to ignore the human theme of being swept about in the undertow of social change."

Tags:arnold, beach, dover, matthew, poetry

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In this article, the writer analyses themes, symbols and images in Matthew Arnold's most famous poem, "Dover Beach." The writer discusses Arnold's sense of isolation, sadness and loneliness. The writer also looks at Arnold's pessimism and his belief that a loss of faith caused the hopelessness of his time.

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"In 'Dover Beach' Matthew Arnold introduces the dominant image in the first line of the poem 'the sea is calm tonight'. The sea is both a symbol and a metaphor referencing the eternal note of sadness as well as the Sea of Faith. The poem in essence reflects the religious philosophy and the loneliness and isolation that Arnold is said by critics including John S. Reist, to have experienced Arnold's belief that the human condition in his own era ... "

Tags:Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach, poetry

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An analysis of Matthew Arnold's poem " Dover Beach". The author discusses the writer's use of symbolism and the effectiveness of the writer's style of alluding to other works.

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"Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (Arnold 397) is a thirty-seven line, five-stanza poem first published in 1867. In "Dover Beach" the speaker looks out over the cliffs of Dover and laments about the sadness of humanity and humanity's loss of faith. I believe "Dover Beach" is a poem that uses allusion extensively and heavily draws on other works to fully explain the loss of faith that the speaker sees in the world."

Tags:analysis, arnold, matthew, poetry, symbolism