Dover Beach

Literally analysis of Dover Beach

Arnold wrote Dover Beach around 1951 or just shortly after a visit, he and his wife made to the Dover region of Southeastern England. On the same year, in June is when they had their marriage. Mainly he focuses on the beach, as it is the place or the surrounding that he probably was in the time he was writing and he named Dover because at that time they were at that place. The poem has four stanzas with the first stanza containing fourteen lines, second stanza with six lines, the third has eight, and the fourth has nine stanzas. The poem frequently expresses the lack of faith and conviction, which is the principle Victorian age disease.

If it were analyzed in terms of art, it would be a melancholic poem where he uses pathetic fallacy means especially when he attributes to the sadness feelings of human onto the intimate sea object. On the same, Arnold laments the transition error of certainty into the era of erosion of the traditions. Similarly, in the four stanzas, the modernism aspect is the idealistic part of the poem or the backbone of the poem that specially is brought together by the nostalgic image of the sea (Arnold and Allott 12). Melancholy, misery and sadness are the major aspects that reign in most parts of the Dover Beach poem.

Arnold the author of Dover Beach describe the slow, solemn and rumbling sound made by the waves of the sea as they swing forward and backwards along the pebbly shore. He presents to the readers a virtual journey that is by time. He uses carefully the first, second and third person point of view in delivering his artistic poem. He describes the sounds as being monotonous in a way that we can hear it all times as the waves withdraws the rolling pebbles back into the sea and after a short pause the waves returning takes them up the shore. A low tremendous sound swings forward and backward at all times. The poet at this instance uses symbolism to suggest that the sounds indicate the eternal...