Title: Dover Beach Matthew Arnold

Subject: Week IV: Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”.

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• Main Ideas
• Key words
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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<aside> ✏️ Notes:

Main lecture notes

• Protests the middle class
• Culture and Anarchy : Dullness of the middle class etc
• Writer of prose which is well known for
• His poetry was criticized
• He admired Wordsworth
• Scholar Gypsy Rural Landscape highly used
• T.S. Elliot “ In one’s prose reflections one may be legitimately occupied with ideals, whereas in verse one can deal only actuality”
• Arnold wanted to heal people with poetry but he turned into criticism “Poetry must bring joy”
• Melancholy and morbid personality,
• He seeks high seriousness in art, he did not like Chaucer
• He was critical of the middle class and their dullness,
• Religious Criticism
• Intellectualism and open-mindedness he desires
• Anti-Victorian but also wants change, so Victorian?
• Delight and Teach
• Attacks Protestant Puritanism
• Dover Beach is a real place
• The eternal note of sadness*
• Romantic kind of an opening line
• Use of enjambments,
• To create lines some meter length etc but he is irregular
• Crisis in faith also turns into a crisis in literature
• Line 9
• Broken line broken sentences, no consistency, no phonetic unity= No semiotic unity
• Because of this poem he might be the precursor of Existentialism
• Who is the listener? Who comes to the Window?
• Human Misery
• Refers to the Classics | Sophocles, Aegean
• Human sorrow to the sound of the waves
• Human misery human sadness
• Sea of Faith
• Loss of Faith
• Contrast in one stanza, existential crisis
• Intellectual crisis
• Concern withdrawing roar, Sinking ending, repetitive, negative negation
• Obscure enemy, misery and endless fight is the truth
• The poem expresses a crisis of faith unable to withstand rising tide of the scientific discovery intellectual inquiry casts doubts on humans in universe, sense of alienation and doubt , melancholy

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture

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