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Comment 7 of 7, added on September 29th, 2005 at 12:52 AM.
Dover Beach is a very fantastic poem by Arnold.I think this is his best output that gives the perfect idea to the reader of the victorian age comprising its hesitating movement,loss of faith on God,and overall depression in the human mind.However, it is written in very easy and comfortable language.But carries a very high mood.I have read the poem for uncountable times.But my interest with it is going much higher and higher day by day.
Kamrul Hasan Regan from Bangladesh
Comment 6 of 7, added on August 29th, 2005 at 11:14 AM.
can someone please give a link to a good website with free notes on dover beach? i have an exam in an hour! i just want to skim over some key points
myra from Pakistan
Comment 5 of 7, added on May 26th, 2005 at 9:41 AM.
The poem, Dover Beach describes a man's simple experience of visiting Dover Beach, and then thinking of the larger issues in life like the power of love and the loss of religious faith in the world.
"The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the full...but now i only hear it's melancholy, long withdrawing roar."
The poem suggests the idea that the ages when faith once held the world together, and gods brought the world comfort, has ended, and has left humankind vulnerable and 'naked'.
He suggests that religious 'faith' has been replaced by love, that love is the 'new' faith, and that only love for one another will hold us together.
Louise from Australia
Comment 4 of 7, added on May 20th, 2005 at 12:57 PM.
From a distance, the world looks beautiful and peaceful. Any storm, if you get far enough away from it, will become nothing but a beautiful swirl of clouds. (think Jupiter's great red spot.) But the closer you get to conflict, the more you see and hear and feel it. It tosses you around and roars in your ears. "Ah, love, let us be true to one another" is surprising, for in spite of saying the world "hath really neither joy, nor love", he seems to think he has it. Perhaps, even when we are in the middle of it all, we can find an eye in the storm and cling to one sweet thing close to home. Perhaps the world is lost, but two lovers can find hope in one another, and together find their own peace, putting no trust in the world.
Vanessa from United States
Comment 3 of 7, added on April 26th, 2005 at 2:22 PM.
Although I have read this poem countless times, the book, Fahrenheit 451 used the poem in such a way as to illustrate the notion that the world is a place of gigantic and meaningless conflict. That conflict, of course, occurs between nations and political institutions, but there also seems to be an intense antagonism existing between people within a single society. I think Arnold wants to hold on to what he might have felt to be only an illusion of security and comradery, because in the end he reminds us that the world may not, in the end, be a place of harmony and love, rather it is a viscous place where brute force, ignorance and the more destructive passions reign. Old Mr. Arnold was a literary naturalist before naturalism was cool.
David Muff from United States
Comment 2 of 7, added on April 20th, 2005 at 9:52 AM.
This poem is featured in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" from a poetry book that the fireman Montag saved from burning. The country is constantly at war and this poem fits that sense.
Esme from United States
Comment 1 of 7, added on April 13th, 2005 at 1:05 AM.
this poem is a great poem because the poet explain how the modren life exploits us and he emphasizes that true love is a voluable thing.
Ghalia
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Dover Beach is a very fantastic poem by Arnold.I think this is his best output that gives the perfect idea to the reader of the victorian age comprising its hesitating movement,loss of faith on God,and overall depression in the human mind.However, it is written in very easy and comfortable language.But carries a very high mood.I have read the poem for uncountable times.But my interest with it is going much higher and higher day by day.
Kamrul Hasan Regan from Bangladesh