Dover Beach

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

The Poet, Mathew Arnold is standing by the slide and watching the gentle waves splashing the light-haired shores of the Straits. There is a weak breeze that blows gently and the ocean looks calm for the night. The surge is full of potential yet under self command and the moon looks bright as it shines its beams on the quiet sea. From the french Coast across the English Channel to the high sea cliffs of England, the light shines pleasantly and softly, and turns weakened towards the tranquil bay of England.

The poet tells his fella to come to the window of his cabin and enjoy the sweet feeling of the night air. Watching the seashore from this height, one can solitary(prenominal) witness the waters of the sea that acts as a gas pedal when they touch the moonlit blended Colour of the sands. Sometimes they picture the roar of the sea when the pebbles cross over to the high sandy beaches and move back suddenly with the withdrawing waves. This phenomenon continues every evening end-to-end the night with a slow trembling note and the bearing of melancholy is felt.

The poet makes his reference to Sophocles a famous Greek dramatist long ago, of the 5th Century B.C. to a passage in his play Antigone(line-583).



Here the same eternal note of sombreness can be heard on the Aegaean: an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea, between Southern Balkans and Anatolia. This brought to the dramatists mind the dense movement of the tide away from the land and its flow, the tide of incident that rules human misery. That same similar sound can be heard in the thoughts from the distant sea in the north.

The properly sea was once a beholder of faith with its vastness that touches all the shores of the earth around the globe, lay folded like a bright girdle cord worn around the waistline and rolled up fastened and firm. Yet now, the sounds of the waves in the sea are only notes of melancholy; long drawn; advance and retreating at the breath of the night wind that...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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