Monster Essays - "Dover Beach" by Arnold: Irony, Images, and Illusions
"Dover Beach" by Arnold: Irony, Images, and Illusions
In the poem "Dover Beach" by: Matthew Arnold there is a lot of
irony, appeal to the auditory and visual sense, and illusions. The tone in
this poem is very sad and dismal, but he shows us how to keep faith and
hope in spite of that and how important being honest, true, and faithful to
one another, really is. Throughout this poem , Arnold mentions all of these
traits and ties them all together.
The irony in this poem is the main plot of the poem. A man has
taken a woman to a beautiful beach in France. There they look over the
cliffs at the ....
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