What is the poem Dover Beach about?

Answer 1

1 The sea is calm to-night,

2 The tide is full, the moon lies fair

3 Upon the straits;--on the French coast, the light

4 Gleams, and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

5 Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

6 Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

7 Only, from the long line of spray

8 Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand,

9 Listen! you hear the grating roar

10 Of pebbles which the waves suck back and fling,

11 At their return, up the high strand,

12 Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

13 With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

14 The eternal note of sadness in.

15 Sophocles long ago

16 Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought

17 Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

18 Of human misery; we

19 Find also in the sound a thought,

20 Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

21 The Sea of Faith

22 Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore

23 Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd;

24 But now I only hear

25 Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

26 Retreating, to the breath

27 Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

28 And naked shingles of the world.

29 Ah, love, let us be true

30 To one another! for the world, which seems

31 To lie before us like a land of dreams,

32 So various, so beautiful, so new,

33 Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

34 Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

35 And we are here as on a darkling plain

36 Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

37 Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Answer 2

"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold is a reflective and melancholy poem that explores themes of isolation, uncertainty, and the erosion of faith in a changing world. It uses the imagery of the ocean at night to convey a sense of darkness and loss, ultimately reflecting on the decline of religious belief and the challenges of finding meaning in the modern world.

Answer 3

The theme of "DOVER BEACH "is human misery is not permanent like the ebbing and flowing of the waves.

Answer 4

Its about human misery and true love.