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    1. The narrator is sitting by the sea on a calm night, reflecting on the fading light and power of France as seen from the English coast. 2. The motion of the waves drawing back pebbles and flinging them reminds the narrator of the ups and downs of human life, just as it did for the Greek tragedy writer Sophocles long ago. 3. Faith once wrapped around the world like a bright belt but is now retreating, just as the sea recedes from the shore, as humanity questions religious beliefs in the wake of industrialization.

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    1. The narrator is sitting by the sea on a calm night, reflecting on the fading light and power of France as seen from the English coast. 2. The motion of the waves drawing back pebbles and flinging them reminds the narrator of the ups and downs of human life, just as it did for the Greek tragedy writer Sophocles long ago. 3. Faith once wrapped around the world like a bright belt but is now retreating, just as the sea recedes from the shore, as humanity questions religious beliefs in the wake of industrialization.

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    1. The narrator is sitting by the sea on a calm night, reflecting on the fading light and power of France as seen from the English coast. 2. The motion of the waves drawing back pebbles and flinging them reminds the narrator of the ups and downs of human life, just as it did for the Greek tragedy writer Sophocles long ago. 3. Faith once wrapped around the world like a bright belt but is now retreating, just as the sea recedes from the shore, as humanity questions religious beliefs in the wake of industrialization.

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    Dover Beach

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    1. The narrator is sitting by the sea on a calm night, reflecting on the fading light and power of France as seen from the English coast. 2. The motion of the waves drawing back pebbles and flinging them reminds the narrator of the ups and downs of human life, just as it did for the Greek tragedy writer Sophocles long ago. 3. Faith once wrapped around the world like a bright belt but is now retreating, just as the sea recedes from the shore, as humanity questions religious beliefs in the wake of industrialization.

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    Dramatic Monologue – a

    single person speaking, who


    isn’t the poet.

    Reflection of the moon in Dover Beach


    the water.
    Narrator is calm and It’s the narrator. Sitting by the sea..
    peaceful and was able to see something
    Strait – Channel
    The sea is calm tonight. beyond the superficial.

    Light fades away.


    The tide is full, the moon lies fair
    The power of
    Upon the straits; on the French coast the light England that stands
    France is fading.
    tall and mighty.

    Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, If there is any hope
    Visual to be found, it is in
    Imagery Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. England.

    He is calling
    his fiancé, Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
    his wife/
    Wide sea.. and sea
    companion. Only, from the long line of spray shore.. where the sand
    is shining white in the
    Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, moonlight.

    Sound of the pebbles,


    Listen! you hear the grating roar
    Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
    Strand – beach / shore.
    Auditory At their return, up the high strand,
    Imagery
    Monotony of human life
    Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
    Tremulous – trembling /
    Shaky It brings sadness because
    With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
    the narrator is reflecting on
    Cadence – tempo /
    his thoughts.
    rhythm. The eternal note of sadness in.
    Greek tragedy writer.
    Sophocles long ago
    Cloudy / muddy / not
    Metaphorical – Motion of Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought clear
    the tide is related to the Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Motion of the tide – the
    ups & downs of human high tide / low tide
    life. Of human misery; we
    Find also in the sound a thought, The waves are conveying a
    Allusion – reference to.
    Hearing it by this distant northern sea. message to the narrator the
    Here the narrator has
    way they conveyed a message
    taken the reference of
    to Sophocles.. many years
    Greek tragedy writer
    ago.. and the message is of –
    Sophocles.
    ups and downs in human life /
    human misery.
    Metaphor – persons faith in something
    Overwhelming / full
    The Sea of Faith / God / devotion / religion.
    – people had a lot
    of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Something that wraps
    around / belt.
    Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
    Faith is retreating The way the sea covers /
    Industrialization setting But now I only hear wraps the earth, faith was
    in – science Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, that intense. Faith used to
    questioning religion / bind / hold people together
    everything that people
    Faith Retreating, to the breath . Night-wind - A new
    believed in.
    Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear direction
    Metaphor – faith being And naked shingles of the world. Shingles - pebbles
    melancholic because it
    is retreating.
    Ah, love, let us be true
    To one another! for the world, which seems
    Like a fairytale
    Appearance vs To lie before us like a land of dreams,
    deception.
    So various, so beautiful, so new, Contrast – life is no
    fairytale but rather it’s
    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, dark and pale.
    Certainty / freedom
    Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
    dark
    And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.
    Signifies chaos. People are turning against each other
    with trust / faith and humanity is missing
    / we are turning into enemies because of
    Figures of speech – difference in opinion due to the onset of
    industrialization (scientific discoveries)
    1. Enjambment

    2. Alliteration 1. Science and religion


    3. Metaphor 2. Loss of faith in God
    4. Anaphora 3. Appearance vs reality
    5. Simile 4. Trust in love / love as our saviour.
    6. Pathetic fallacy

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