Dover_Beach

Dover Beach “Dover Beach” Essay In “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), the narrator is in a house on the beach, and he is looking out the window at the sea and the beach. It is dark out. The lighthouse and the moon provide the illumination. The man is speaking to a woman in the house with him. The poem is a dramatic monologue, it tells a story. The sea serves two vital purposes in the poem – it is used as both a setting to set the mood, and as a means of contrast. Matthew Arnold wrote this poem in 1867. The beach house in the poem is somewhere on the English Channel, most likely on a piece of beachfront called “Dover Beach”. Some very eminent aspects of this poem are pebbles, Sophocles, the “Sea of Faith”, the Aegean Sea, and “ignorant armies”. Guy Montag recites “Dover Beach” in Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, to link the parallel conditions of human hopelessness and misery. The first part of “Dover Beach” portrays the vista the narrator is viewing as he looks out upon the sea. The “sea is calm”, and the “tide is full”. The moon and a French Lighthouse illuminate the shoreline, sea, poem, pebbles, beach, faith, dover, world, human, waves, narrator, misery, out, nor, sophocles, shoreline, over, once, motion, montag, earth, both, begin, back, again, aegean, witnessed, past, novel, love, house, hopelessness, guy, fahrenheit, even, english, channel