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Monster Essays - Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
DOVER BEACH 
 Dover Beach is a very 'mood' evoking poem . We are first met with an appreciation  for the sea  and different emotions that is draws to the observer. However as the poem progresses we are  gradually introduced to a large metaphor for love and like the sea is able to evoke many moods , and  different emotions , whether  prosperous or  decayed. The poet describes the emotions  with extreme passion and perhaps with slight hysteria. We are given as sense of loss by this hysteria which becomes clearer  in the last stanza. 
		
		The title of this poem , 'Dover Beach' , really sets the scene to the re....
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