Message of Dover Beach
Arnolds focus in Dover Beach is on societys anxieties - the grim outcome of the Victorian times. The message is the negative impact of the industrial revolution on the poor and on future generations. ... This aspect is best seen in his third stanza of "Dover Beach. ... Some key literary concepts to Arnolds "Dover Beach" is his use of active words such as "glimmering," "spray," and "grating roar" to describe the seas waves, in the first stanza. It gives the reader a sense of being on the beach, with the grating and roaring waves, throwing about the pebbles. Arnold wrote "Dover Beach" with a realistic tone through his use of words and illustrative descriptions. ... This is a way Arnold causes the narrator to give life and emotion to "Dover Beach" by the flow of words such as at line 10 with "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling," giving the reader a sense of motion, and the feel of the sea close by.