"Dover Beach", written by Matthew Arnold, a famous elegiac poet, critic, and educationalist of the Victorian era, was published in 1867 when the countryEngland was torn between science and religion, between  Romanticism and Classicism, between materialism and spiritualism. This poem us a vehement picture of the poet's melancholic view of life as well as the representation of Victorian...

Matthew Arnold belongs to the Victorian Age where there is a conflict between science and Religion. And because of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species"(1859), there is happened to be more of faith upon religion made a big gap among the common fellow beings.       Here Arnold uses the image of sea to establish his view point. He here makes a comparison...

This remarkable line is quoted from Matthew Arnold's one of the most famous elegies, "Dover Beach" which is published in 1867 in "New Poems".         Arnold here gives his own feeling of gloominess and sadness at the crumbling away of the religious faith and speaks of the loss of true love which is the principal ingredient of religion. This line records the...