Response to The Dover Beach and The Dover Bitch It appears that The Dover Bitch written by Anthony Hecht is suppose to be a satire and rebuttal to the Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. Arnold has a somewhat more optimistic view of love. He believes that the one thing that humanity can have faith in that it will not disappoint is love. Arnold believes that despite the hardships we experience as the human race such as poverty, war, famine, and other societal downfalls, our absolute hope was love. Hecht on the other hand disagrees. He believes that love is of a fickle nature and he illustrates this throughout his poem by utilizing sarcasm and comedy to make this point. Dover Beach takes place in England and in France. It is a story of a man who
Nearly everyone has had that dreadful encounter with the last person they want to see in places like the supermarket, dry cleaners, or the movie theaters. What follows are a few awkward moments of strained conversation while one looks for signs of bitter regret in the eyes of his or her ex. Carolyn Krizer’s poem “Bitch” depicts such a meeting. The poem brings the reader to reality of what really goes on deep beyond conversation while seeing an ex. Through the use of personification, diction, and tone Kizer delineates the speaker’s struggle with feelings of animosity, repression, and desire for reconciliation.
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The classic 1975 film, Jaws, takes place in a coastal New England tourist town. After a young woman is killed by a shark the police chief and the mayor have differing opinion on what to do about the shark. The police chief, Martin Brody, wants to close the beaches while the mayor, Larry Vaughn, does not want to lose any tourist revenue and overrules him. After another shark attack a bounty is put out for the shark. While a shark is caught it is not the one who has been terrorizing the community. However, the beaches open once again and there is another attack. Brody, along with oceanographer Matt Hooper and local fisherman Quint set out to find the shark.
The story is set in France, in the Jardins Publiques. The setting is important because it further illustrates how Miss Brill is out of place in her society. She is a foreigner in a strange land.
One of the ways Fahrenheit 451 can be related to Arnold’s Dover Beach is by connecting the absense of true love in both of them. Throughout the book, Montag slowly realizes that he does not truly love his wife Mildred. In the beginning, Montag believes that he truly loves Mildred. However, as the book goes on, he meets Clarisse, and begins to change his way of thought. He slowly begins to wake up from the dream world that he is living in. As he begins to know Clarisse, he slowly realizes that Mildred does not share the same deep passion for life that he does. At the beginning of the Sieve and the Sand, Montag frantically reads books to gain more knowledge. Mildred complains and kicks the books around, showing that her and her husband are growing apart. At the end of the book, Montag is talking to Granger, and says "... Even if she dies, I realized a moment ago, I don't think I'll feel sad (155)". This shows that Montag does not care for his wife as much as he thought he did before. In the poem, Arnold states "…a land of dreams ...hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light". The world in Arnold’s poem is a land of dreaming. While people are dreaming of true love and joy, there is none in the real world that you live in once you wake up from the dream. Once the “confused alarms of struggle and flight” wake you up, you realize that the world is really void of love and happiness. The world in Arnold's poem is a world parallel to that of Bradbury's: Both are worlds that do not contain love or light, as much as people in them would like to believe otherwise.
However, unlike the other works there is a positive way to treat the problem instead of becoming beasts, gouging eyes out, etc. In "Tintern Abbey" the speaker is living in a postlapsarian world consisting of "evil tongues", "rash judgements", and "the sneers of men". The speaker visits his memories where nature has "beauteous forms" where "sensations sweet" and are "felt in the blood, and felt along the heart". Fortunately for the speaker, nature 's power over the mind renders the mind from seeing what the fallen world consists of and instead sees "cheerful faith that the world is full of blessing". In "Dover Beach" the speaker describes the fallen world that lies before them that "Hath neither really joy, nor love, nor light,/Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain". In this postlapsarian world science and evolution is what kills essences such as truth, faith or love. Although, the speaker is in this lonely world of diminishing fate, he is capable of tackling the pain and uncertainty of living in the fallen world. Both of these works face the problem of living in a postlapsarian world where the speakers treat the problem in a positive way compared to the other works. Dover beach treats the problem of living in a postlapsarian world by being "true to one another" and in
The Beach was no more, if not worse, than reality's true society. The community was challenged once, and failed as a whole. No one was willing to take responsibility for any of the actions or decisions anyone made. "The innocent eye sees nothing," proved to be true in the beginning, but as time elapsed, Richard prevailed and saw the truth of the community for what it was. The Romantic Paradigm's innocence was destroyed by the greed and selfishness of human kind, and in the end, proved that no matter how "perfect" your society is, you will always inherit the natural flaws installed upon you by society itself.
The initial paragraph lures the reader into believing that this is a happy lover’s poem written to woo a woman with whom he is in love. The steady string of compliments mesh together very well and leave a warm and happy image of the pair’s relationship. The imagery is wonderful as well, as in this example: “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow” (Marvell 11-2). This sentence inspires a mental picture of a sweeping kingdom and all the vastness th...
It is comprised of contradictory phrases such as, “change so that nothing with change (Szymborska, 2000, pg. 161).” The woman’s role in this poem seems to be the typical female persona of having kids, being submissive to the male, and reading Ladies Home Journal for fun in her down time. The woman is “Naïve, but gives the best advice. Weak, but takes on anything. A screw loose and tough as nails.” Naïve, weak, and a screw loose could be how a male describes her, but she would say that she gives the best advice, has the willpower to take on anything, and is as tough as nails. The last two lines of the poem read, “She must love him, or she’s just plain stubborn. For better, for worse, for Heaven’s sake.” For better, for worse is taken out of a traditional marriage ceremony and since they are married, she is bound to him forever and it his her duty to love and please him. Although this described role of the wife is not as common of a tradition today, because gender roles are not as defined in the post modern era, there are still multiple male figures around the world who believe that this is still the utmost duty of the
At the start, the first stanza of the poem is full of flattery. This is the appeal to pathos. The speaker is using the mistress's emotions and vanity to gain her attention. By complimenting her on her beauty and the kind of love she deserves, he's getting her attention. In this first stanza, the speaker claims to agree with the mistress - he says he knows waiting for love provides the best relationships. It feels quasi-Rogerian, as the man is giving credit to the woman's claim, he's trying to see her point of view, he's seemingly compliant. He appears to know what she wants and how she should be loved. This is the appeal to ethos. The speaker seems to understand how relationships work, how much time they can take, and the effort that should be put forth. The woman, if only reading stanza one, would think her and the speaker are in total agreement.
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Since it is known "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" was written for Donne's wife Ann, it's not a stretch to call this a love poem. Most love poems, like those using the Petrarchan style, focus primarily on the beloved. However, in this case, the speaker spends most of his time defining the nature of the love they share instead of focusing on exaggerating his mistress's love. Therefore, the speaker leaves the "drama" of the typical Petrarchan style, and introduces themes like loyalty, spirituality and lust. In the poem, he contrasts love that is based on the body, with a spiritual love that is able to transcend the flesh and is based on the soul. When he says, "But we by a love so much refined(,) (t)hat we ourselves know not what it is" (17-18), he is basically based upon his faith to claim this love. Although he is encountered in a hard situation, he uses lust as a way of showing just how much bett...
John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” and Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” were written at different times by very different men; yet their conclusions about the human condition are strikingly similar. A second generation Romantic, Keats’s language is lush and expressive, strongly focused on the poet as an individual; while Arnold, a Victorian in era and attitude, writes using simple language, and is focused on the world in a broader context. While Keats is a young man, struggling with the knowledge he is soon to die; Arnold is a man newly married, to all accounts healthy, and with a long life ahead. Yet despite their differences in era and age, both Keats and Arnold write with similarly dark emotional imagery, jarring emotional contrast, and a consistent exploration of the effects that the natural sounds around them have on their minds and emotions in order to demonstrate that suffering is as incomprehensible a part of the human experience as it is inevitable.
Dover Beach is a poem of sadness that deals with the loss of human faith in conventional ideas and institutions. The setting of the poem is the eastern coast of England near the coast of France. Arnold begins the first stanza by describing the beautiful nature of Dover Beach: The sea is calm tonight./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair. Upon the straits; on the French coast the light/ Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,/ Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay./ Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! He establishes the peacefulness of the setting, yet the very stillness of the stanza summons a mood of reflective sadness, which is quite common in Arnolds works (Allott 280). The movement of the waves is a slow rhythm for they Begin, and cease, and then again begin,/ With tremulous cadence slow. The rhythm of the sea, along with the grating roar&#...