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Dover Beach As the narrator of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach " looks out his window, he sees a beautiful world of nature: the sea and the cliffs under the glow of the moon. Describing this scene to his lover, he invites her to "[c]ome to the window" so that she might see it too (6). However, the speaker wishes his lover to see more...

...glow of the moon. Describing this scene to his lover, he invites her to "[c]ome to the window" so that she might see it too (6). However, the speaker wishes his lover to see more than just a beautiful beach . Rather, he wants her to see Dover Beach as an ironic image that is a representation of the world the speaker sees. Likewise...

...that the dead would find her actions pure and uncorrupt, so the king s emotions and rationalism about how to treat a dead patriot supercede the traditional way of treating the dead.

While Arnold uses Dover Beach to represent this modern world of change, he creates a speaker to represent the tension that the poet and his fellow Romantics...The Beach - how a bestseller was moulded into a boxoffice hit Alex Garlands' debut novel The Beach was first published in 1996. It was a huge success and got praise from litterature critics. It's a bit of a cult classic-ecspecially among young travellers and backpackers around the world- although it's today difficult to separate it from the...

...circumstances, is given a map of a well-kept secret to a paradiselike place, unexploited by masstourism. He and a french traveller couple decides to find this place and are thrown into a big adventure. The Beach is situated in a marinpark in The Gulf of Thailand-the place is of course made up by the...