ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dover Beach, Tremulous, Ancient Greek
20 Feb 2016
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Dover beach is used as an important setting. Can see the gleaming lights of france from dover beach. England and france have a long history of enmity and battles. The cliffs of dover are white chalk with black flecks; they glow in the moonlight. Philosophical poem; arnold is a man of philosophical ideas. The sea is calm tonight. /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,/glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. /come to the window, sweet is the night-air! . Evidence: calm sea, tranquil bay, sweet air. Gleams and is gone gives sense of a coming shift of tone/further development of this in the poem. Speaker has a listener/audience in the poem. Sophocles = ancient greek writer far it is calm and tranquil, with a romantic sense. A shift in the poem is being marked. Another scene being evoked; what the pebbles made sophocles.
