DOVER BEACH
Dover Beach
-Matthew Arnold
Introduction:
Matthew Arnold, poet and critic was
educated at Rugby and Oxford University.
He published several volumes of poetry between 1849 and 1867. “Dover
Beach” his one of the elegiac poem published in the 1867 volume entitled “New
Poems”. The poem reveals Arnold’s
brooding melancholy and insoluble mystery. The description of nature shrubby as
an opening to elaborate his view of life.
Calmness of the sea:
Arnold presence the picture of a
calm and peaceful night on the Dover Beach in the moon light. The moon light falls on the tides of the Dover
Beach straits between the French and English coast. The tides are rising quietly and the moon
looks beautiful. He asks his beloved to
come to the window and look at the beautiful sight of the sea waves in the moon
light. The showers of water are flying
on the show where the moon light glimmers those droplets.
The rolling of the sea waves:
The poet gives a complete picture of
the able and slow of the waves. The
waves drawback the pebbles and then hurl then to the show when they
return. The grating roar of pebbles
resembles the sad music of humanity. He
imagines that Sophocles, the great Greek writer might have heard with eternal
music of sadness when he stayed on the Aegean sea shore.
The sea of faith:
The poet compares the darkness of
the sea to religious faith. In the past
religious faith encircle the world and kept it tight hold. It gave energy to humanity. It lay around the world like bright bells
which was tight and firm. But at
present, the faith is declaring. The
world it’s full of doubts and question.
The laws of religious faith:
According to the poet, the world was
happy and peaceful when the people followed religion. But the faith in religion is declining. The rising tide his compared to the rising
faith of the past. The reseeding waves
are similar to the reseeding faith.
The need for true love:
The poet comes back to his beloved
and ask her to have true love as he has the says that only true love can
survive and replays the laws of religious faith. He sees the world filled with beauty
unfreshness. But he realized that it is
only an illusion. In reality there is no
peace and joy. He believed that only
true love and faith in god can bring man happiness. Arnold mentions that the ignorant and foolish
soldier fight in the war field without knowing they caused and effect of
war. Likewise people live a mechanical
life and experienced struggles without knowing the cost for them. He resist that people would develop faith in
religion and love and live a peaceful life.
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