Reading this poem brings out many deep emotion inside of me. Feeling of sadness and loneliness are just some of the few feelings I have. This poem is well written and is backed with many vivid imagery and clear metaphors. Mr. Arnold describes a number of settings and beauty in dover beach. This poem is written in free verse with no particular meter or beats to it. Mr. Arnold uses poetic language to carry out his theme. He is speaking to someone he loves, whom I believe is dead. In the beginning, he starts out calmly and peacefulness, "the sea is calm to-night," but the feeling of calmness quickly turn to bitterness and sadness, "the eternal note of sadness in."
The main theme in this story, however, could not be decided, 2 main themes stands out, love and faith. Numerous hint of the theme faith is the metaphor "the sea of faith."
Love letter to Clara Ford
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Arnold SchwarzeneggerMr. Arnold continuously uses the sea with faith as the metaphor for this poem. The sea tide could be viewed as going in and out, much like our faith in god. The sea of faith represents our eternal sadness (Line 14). In the third stanza, where he says, "The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the full and round earth's shore. But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating...etc," I believe this stanza is the most important of all in this poem. It shows the author once believes in faith but his faith has been dwindling and now he turns to love for survival, which he shows us in the last stanza.
What appears to be beauty is actually cold and lonely feeling in this world. The eternal sadness and human misery is continually happening to us, whatever we like it or not. The...
Lots of mistakes
You really have a great ideas but I think u misunderstood parts of the poem and with lots of mistakes though ur essay, such as, when u said: "The main theme in this story" this is a poem not a story!! Also love is not a main theme it is just a minor theme, and I think the main theme is that lose of religion not really faith, because faith is part of the religion and if faith it have to be the lose of faith. When u said: "His line "Listen! You hear the grating roar, of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling." It is not actually one line so to represent that it is more than one line u should write it in the form: "His line "Listen! You hear the grating roar/Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling" and it dose not give the reader action of dreams he just uses the imagery "Liston" to draw the reader attention.
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