Essay on Perceptions in Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach

Imagery is used consistently right through the poem to evoke sensory experiences and to endorse the theme. For instance: ‘A stark white ring-barked forest’-‘the sapphire misted mountains’-‘the hot gold lush of noon’ and many more. All of these appeal to the readers senses and places brilliant visual image(s) in our minds by illuminating the various features of the country, from the perspective of the poems persona. This is attained using; adjectives, ‘the sapphire-misted mountains¬¬¬’, which gives us a picture of mountains with a bluish haze embracing it, this image would thus give an impression of a composed environment and evoke a sense of tranquillity. Additionally by using ‘sapphire’ to illustrate the mist surrounding the mountains we get a sense of Australia’s uniqueness as sapphire is a rare gem. Imagery is also displayed through a metaphor used to appeal to the sense of hearing. For example: ‘the drumming of an army, the steady soaking rain’. Here Mackellar depicts the rain as an army and allows us not only to visualize but get a sense of the sound of the rain, which is presented through the adjective ‘drumming’. This line also presents to us the intensity of the rain again through the adjectives ‘drumming, steady and soaking’.

Growing up in Southern California, I was surrounded by coastal culture, which has influenced me in many ways. No matter whether I lived in San Diego or Ventura county, I was never more than ten minutes away from the beach. Every weekend, it seemed, my dad would take us to the beach as family so we could play in the water, build sandcastles, catch hermit crabs, see the tide pools, and most of all, spend time together. I was enchanted by all the beach had to offer. Every sandcastle built was a palace for a hermit crab and every tide pool a thriving community. Whenever I stepped into the water, my imagination would run wild. Despite how often we went, I always enjoyed our days at the beach.

In this poem the poet uses many techniques to engage and hook the audience. Dan Ashlin expresses how the ocean has a life of its own through personification, an example is “it dreams, it mopes, it stretches”. I appreciate how the poet has used verbs in this technique as it positions me to feel like I can relate to human emotions, movements and

‘Sleep’ uses imagery, rhyme, melancholy disillusion and elaborate language. In stanza one sleep asks the sleeper if they will give themselves to sleep fully, in the physical and non-physical state, the way children do. The sleeper effortlessly states ‘yes utterly’. This stanza is also in a soft and gentle tone the repetition of the ‘b’ sound, giving the poem and thumping feel, in the way a heartbeat would. After stanza one, stanza two continues this soft repetition and rhyming of the ‘b’ sound, Slessor uses imagery in the form of water. This is evident with the use of the word ‘estuary’ which means river mouth. This is used as water and sleep are both as necessary as each other. Slessor also uses imagery to depict the way someone would fall asleep. He

At the beginning of the poem, the teacher feels preposterous with one simple and naïve question from his student. While teaching his student about "Dover Beach" (1), the young freshman girl questions whether the Sea of Faith is palpable. The question either naïve or foolish when what they are discussing about is just a "figurative language" (6). She wonders if it an actual physic sea that people can see on the maps. Along with the questioning tone and the words "real" repeat three times in line 8,9, and 12 shows that she doesn't understand the lesson or the difference between figurative language and literally. It is absurd for the teacher that she has the nerve to ask such and simple yet reckless question. In addition, he feels so juvenile when their conversation is about a thing which everybody knows is real, yet it is not concrete real.

In “Dover Beach” Arnold uses words such as “glimmering”, “tranquil”, and “eternal” to describe an epic sort of love. He describes the scenery and heightens the romance. We see the ocean being used as a metaphor (Dover Beach vs. Dover Bitch), for waves can be calm or even rough at times (like love). “Dover Bitch” however is clearly a parody from a realist point of view. Arnold disregards the beautiful language found in “Dover Bitch” and even uses the phrase “etc.”

Additionally, the speaker explains to his wife that, although he must leave, their love will “endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to airy thinness beat,” implying that their love is as fine as gold because it is just as malleable (22-24). This conceit also shows that the connection between the two will stretch until they are together again. Through diction, Donne creates metaphor and conceit so as to characterize the speaker and his wife as having an emotional love. As such, the speaker illustrates what he predicts their separation will be like in narrating how they are to act when separated . Therefore, Donne’s “Dover Beach” depicts emotional story of the separation that the speaker and his wife will

“Dover Beach” is a poem that was written by Matthew Arnold which describes a speaker’s view on faith slowly fading from the world in which he lives. The primary purpose of this poem is to use imagery to paint a picture of the dying religious presence in the world that the speaker finds himself in. This is the central message that Matthew Arnold is trying to get across to his audience. An excellent example of how Arnold translates this to the reader is how the tone of the first eight lines and the tone of the final three lines of the poem differ from each other.

In the picture View of the Surf on the Sea of Galilee. Erich Lessing (The photographer) took a picture to capture the form and beauty of the waves hitting the shore at the Sea of Galilee. The picture was taken on 8/03/04. While many might say that it’s just a picture and it doesn’t mean anything. However, if they just took a deeper look than they could see that every picture has a story and upon viewing this picture of the ocean, the lighting and forms of the waves are not only magnificent, but also evoke deeper emotion and meaning than someone may notice at first glance.

The main message in Dover beach by matthew arnold is that things may appear good and beautiful, but with deeper meaning and understanding you will reveal the true secrets of the dover beach. Arnold quotes, “Swept with confused

Dover Beach In Matthew Arnolds, “Dover Beach” he achieves a lonely tone to the poem that includes the calmness of nature, and the beauty it holds. In the beginning of the poem a man sits inside of a house with a women looking over the English Channel. The two look over the English Channel to the other side where France is located. When the lights of France get extinguished, the author focuses more on the aural imagery.

The technique employed here in Mountains and Sea are not fit for a uniform composition. This is very much on purpose. Frankenthaler has created a painting that is an experimentation. This painting is an experimentation of medium. This painting is an experimentation of form. This is a painting that is a culmination of practice into a territory that had not yet been defined. As such, the composition feels expressive, chaotic, unrestricted, spontaneous. The result of this free form expression leaves in its wake a composition that relies on variety to tell its story. The only thing consistent in Mountains and Sea is Frankenthaler’s commitment to expression.

Reality and conceptuality: Personal views of the sea in Sylvia Plath’s Point Shirley and Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach.

Matthew Arnold was born in the early 19th century in England and began his career as a poet who earned acclaim very quickly at his school, Rugby School. As he grew older he became a teacher at his alma mater and as the years passed, his passion for education and knowledge paved the way into what Arnold became most well-known for, critical essays and poetry. In this time he wrote some of his best works which earned him a teaching position at Oxford as a teacher of poetry. From that point on, his career in critical essays and poetry really took off with very critically acclaimed works such as “To Marguerite – Continued” and “Dover Beach.” Arnold’s poems, such as “Dover Beach,” often focus on solitude, romance, and faith, which was very popular at the time, so many of his poems were published and much-admired. In “Dover Beach” Arnold uses symbolism, varying points-of-view, and rhyme scheme to express to the reader that love is fleeting.

The white sand of the beaches warmed the soles of my feet as I stepped onto the dune down into the slack. The glow of the now fading orange sun warmed my face, while the unfamiliar smell of saltwater tickled my nose. I was on the beach for the first time and I was beyond anxious. My only previous knowledge of the beach came for movies such as Jaws and Soul Surfer. To my dismay there was not a cute sheriff