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Dover Beach
Title: Dover Beach
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 656 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dover Beach
How can life or anything be so wonderful, but at times seem
so unbearable? This is a question that Matthew Arnold may
have asked himself one day, while writing "Dover Beach".
This is a poem about a sea and a beach that is truly beautiful,
but hold much deeper meaning than what meets the eye. The
poem is written in free verse with no particular meter or
rhyme scheme, although some of the words do …showed first 75 words of 656 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 656 total…hyperbole, are not used in the poem,
besides the metaphor for "Faith" being the Sea. The diction
Arnold uses creates a sense of peacefulness and calmness. It
is fairly easily understood vocabulary, with the exception of a
few words, such as cadence and darkling. From reading
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", one realizes that there is
no certainty in life. When everything is going perfectly,
something unfortunate may happen at any given time, with no
forewarning.
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