Dover Beach.pptx

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DOVER BEACH

(Victorian Era)

By:

Ms. Kumkum Gupta,

Associate Professor,

Govt. College,Sector-1,

Panchkula.


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ABOUT VICTORIAN AGE

Science or Faith:

Despite its surface complacency, theVictorian period was fraught with religious,

scientific and social doubts.

Darwinism brought in its wake a number of

serious questions regarding long held religiousbeliefs.


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People believed they had now

to choose between science andfaith and were not comfortable

with this choice. They no longer

had refuge in nature (so

important to the romantics).


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Phrases such as Survival of

the FittestandThe Struggle forExistencepropagated by the

biologistCharles Darwin led

Victorians to view nature as

hostile to humans.


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MATHEW ARNOLD

1822-1888

Mr. Arnold was a poet and critic of Victorian

Age.

His works include:

The Strayed Reveller and other Poems.

Empedocles On Etna and other Poems. Culture and Anarchy.

Essays in Criticism.


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MATHEW ARNOLD


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AGE OF DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS

The mid century writers were saddened

by what seemed to them to be the

withdrawal of the divine from the world.

The materialism, Secularism, Vulgarity

that accompanied progress led some

writers to wonder if their culture was

really advancing by any measure,.


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THE DOVER BEACH THE SOUTHERN ENGLAND


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Mathew Arnold wrote the poem

shortly after a visit he and hiswife made to the Dover region of

southern England in 1851.

They got married in June the

same year.


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Arnold is standing by the seashore and

watching the gentle waves splashing the

sandy shores of the Straits. There is a

weak breeze that blows gently and the sealooks calm for the night. The tide is full of

potential yet under self control and the

moon looks bright as it shines its beamson the quiet sea.


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Come to the Window


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Then he shifts to first personpoint of view when he includes

his wife and the reader as co

observers line 18 we, line 29 us.


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Frances Lucy Wightman


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Central Message

Challenges to the validity of

long standing theological andmoral precepts have shaken the

faith of people in religion and

God.


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THE SHAKEN FAITH IN GOD


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There was a doubt on the

existence of God and a loss of faith

in religion. The poet, who wasdeeply religious, lamented the dying

of the light of faith as symbolized by

the light he sees in Dover beach onthe coast of France which gleams

one moment and is gone the next.


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Literary Terms

Elegy:

A somber poem or a song that praises or laments the

dead ....dramatic

Monologue:A poem that presents a moment in which the speaker

discusses a topic and in doing so reveals his feelings

and state of mind to a listener/reader .

Only the speaker talks hence the term monologue -mono means single and logue means discourse


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Alliteration:

Repetition of consonant sounds:

tonight ,tide

Full, fair

gleams,gone

gleams and glimmeringcoast cliff

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In the third stanza the sea is

turned into a metaphoric sea of faitha symbol for a time when religion

could still be experienced without

doubts brought about by progressand science (Darwinism).


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Now the sea of faith and thus

the certainty of religionwithdraws itself from the human

grasp and leaves only darkness

behind.


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COMMENTS

Reference to French Revolution-False

dawn with Napoleon winning but then

resorting to dictatorship.

Beginning of the poem some what

pleasant but deceptive.

Comparison to the armies fighting by

night stands for in-distinguishability

between the friend and foe.


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Napoleon BonaparteFrench military and political leader

(15 August 1769 5 May 1821)


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The sea of faith receding refers

to the changing world and lossof faith.

Naked shingles refers to theunprotected masses.


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