Dover Beach: Analysis.

Hazem 10A English Class.

Analysis of Dover Beach (poem)

View-Point:

· A view of peace and tranquility in the beginning.

· A perspective of how phenomenal the place must be and how really beautiful the world is.

· In the second stanza starts to sort of ‘bend’ that perfect idea of the world, the poet conveys a view of sadness that is everlasting.

· Also that long ago human misery still existed and was known in different times and places, to give us the idea that human misery is everywhere and exists all the time.

· In the fourth stanza he gives us an outlook, of why this human misery came about, which was because humans started to lose faith and we are now in a faithless and dark world.

· The last stanza is where everything fades out in a ‘melancholic fog’. He gives us his last point of view which is that all the good in the world disappeared and only the bad appeared.

Conclusion of changes in point of view: The alterations of the view- point start with the world being a perfect place to > the world is a sad place > how it became a sad place (because of losing faith) > Then the result (what the world has turned to because we lost faith).

Diction:

· The writer starts to use words that are calm and serene in the beginning to give an idea of tranquility and to describe the beautiful night.

· As we read the rest of the poem we find that the phrasing changes from the positive diction in the beginning to the negative (for e.g “melancholy” and “misery”.

Mood:

· When reading the text at the beginning of the poem, it makes me feel by the use of words and phrasing, serenity and tranquility because words like “The Sea is calm tonight”, and “Sweet is the night air”.

· In the middle of the poem in stanza two and three I feel melancholic and sad, because of the image the poet sets out for the readers, which is an everlasting sadness which has begun a long time ago.

· Again in the end of the poem the mood is still sad, but now it feels like we had caused it by our lack of faith and conveys mood guiltiness.