Sunday, May 6, 2001

Dover Beach Comments

Rating: 3.5

The sea is calm to-night.
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,
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Matthew Arnold
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Rip Brown 11 May 2025

Second coming

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2024

CONGRATS being chosen again as The Classic Poem Of The Day by POem Hunter and Team

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 August 2024

I will repeat in brevity my previous comment: A major theme in 'Dover Beach' concerns the declining influence of Christianity. This theme is most evident in the third stanza when the speaker invokes a metaphorical 'Sea of Faith.'

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Sandra Feldman 02 August 2024

Maybe One of the greatest poems ever written about the World and the human condition. Forever young, Forever deep and tragic!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 June 2024

Dover Beach is a celebrated poem that addresses a crisis of faith. A major theme in 'Dover Beach' concerns the declining influence of Christianity. So very true and crystal clear.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 June 2024

Congratulations once again. TOP Marks and Full TEN. So true and honest great poem by an English greatest poet Matthew Arnold.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 June 2024

WOW! This truest poem is once again chosen as The Classic Poem Of The Day by Poem Hunter and Team. Most deserving!

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Sandra Feldman 21 April 2024

The timeless truth so deeply, truthfully and beautifully said. Brilliantly unforgettable@

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Sandra Feldman 20 April 2024

So great, So great and So True!

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Sandra Feldman 20 April 2024

What a Poem! All of life and so much more. Each time I read it, I love it more.

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Sandra Feldman 16 February 2024

Ageless masterpiece! One of the best and most universal poems of all times.

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Dr Dillip K Swain 15 February 2024

I can get the essence of this poem from its concluding line

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 February 2024

SIX: In essence, 'Dover Beach' is an investigation into what it means to live, reflecting on the changing world and the erosion of certainties.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 February 2024

FIVE: The poem conveys a sense of alienation, doubt, and melancholy, and is often interpreted as a progressive precursor to 20th-century crises of faith such as existentialism and absurdism.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 February 2024

FOUR: The speaker struggles with the diminished status of Christianity, which seems unable to withstand the rising tide of scientific discovery.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 February 2024

THREE: This 'sea' was once full in the recent past, but reserves have diminished in the intervening years. Dover Beach" is a celebrated poem that addresses a crisis of faith.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 February 2024

TWO: A major theme in "Dover Beach" concerns the declining influence of Christianity. This theme is most evident in the third stanza when the speaker invokes a metaphorical "Sea of Faith."

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Sylvia Frances Chan 15 February 2024

ONE: This poem has once again been rightly declared The Classic Poem Of The Day by Poem Hunter and Team, I will explain this in detail here. I like to do that very much. Congratulations!

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Ramesh T A 15 February 2024

Nice composition leading to the coming of Moder Poetrty!

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Sandra Feldman 19 November 2023

For me, one of the most beautiful and best poem of the English language! It takes me to spiritual regions that are full of light and never better explored. I love It! ! !

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