Monday, March 30, 2015

Dover Beach BY MATTHEW ARNOLD

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Title: Dover Beach means the actual beach it's talking about. It describes a beach as a metaphor to people, personalized like a person. 

Paraphrase: The poem describes the beauty (positives sides) and rough (negative sides) of a person in which one tried to be positive but the outside world, the water, takes its role on you good on some days and bad on others. 

Connotation: Well the changing of the literal word of the beach to mean a person and the waves to represent the impact of others on the person. 

Attitude: the attitude of the author is optimistic in which the result can end on a positive. 

Shift: We first feel the beauty of the water then the ugly and roughness then again speak of the result and joy of surpassing the storm. 

Title Revised: I think the title is fine the way it is but it could mean something more significant instead of Dover beach but just Dover in which it isn't a thing but a more personified thing. 

Theme: The world influences what and how you do things in which you can either look forward towards the positive or only remember the negative. 




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