Dover Beach Matthew Arnold Swept Away
Swept Away Dover Beach is a very melancholic poem written by Matthew Arnold. ... One of the issues that Arnold felt in the age of doubt was the industrial catastrophe. ... This misery is pointed out in the second stanza by 5th century Greek dramatist Sophocles who is used to reconnect an old idea to Arnold’s present day upset. Arnold uses his idea of “the turbid ebb and flow of human misery” and incorporates it in his own poem. ... Arnold wrote it very plain and clear for everyone to understand; “Sophocles long ago/ Heard it on the Aegean/ We find also in the sound of thought/ Hearing it by this distant northern sea”. Another factor that saddened Arnold was the fact that Victorians were troubled by time. ... Arnold had many times complained of “its sick hurry”. ... ” These questions threw the Victorian Society through loops, especially Matthew Arnold. ... This just added on to another factor of why Arnold felt the world was suffering and becoming lost to the sea. Arnold devoted the third stanza to the faith crisis during the modern Victorian Ages. ... Arnold uses the image of clothes (bright girdle, sash) to represent when the world was still dressed or whole (intact). ... The lack of faith has left Britain stripped and naked, that whatever was left had blown to the “night-wind” The use of exclamation marks in Dover Beach are very selective.