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Dover Beach. By Matthew Arnold. The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair. Upon the straits; on the French coast the light. Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray.
Through this poem “Dover Beach”, speaker manages to comment on his most recurring themes. Its message is that the world’s mystery has declined with the rise in modernity. But, this decline is painted as particularly uncertain, dark, and volatile.
“Dover Beach” consists of four stanzas of unequal length that follow the ebb and flow of the speaker’s thoughts and feelings. This real-time unfolding of the speaker’s experience gives “Dover Beach” the characteristic structure of lyric poetry, which often moves from the external world to internal experience.
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold has been considered among the representative poems to capture the mood of the Victorian Age. Dover Beach is replete with questions the age had been grappling with questions on various themes like religion, morality, faith, doubt and knowledge, among others.
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light. Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray. Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar.
Dover Beach. The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair. Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light. Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray.
Dec 7, 2020 · In Dover Beach Matthew Arnold is describing the slow and solemn rumbling sound made by the sea waves as they swing backward and forward on the pebbly shore. The poet notes that this sound suggests the eternal note of sadness in human life.
Nov 14, 2021 · “Dover Beach” is a powerful and disturbing poem that manages to evoke both pessimism on the global level and optimism as a personal statement of love.
Dover Beach. The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair. Upon the straits; on the French coast the light. Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray. Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
The sea is everywhere in "Dover Beach." It shows up in different places and in different forms, but we feel its power all over the place. Sometimes it's a physical location, something you can actua...
