The poem "Dover Beach" rips off the mask from the world. Explain in context of the poem. (Atleast 3 pages)
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Dover Beach is a 'honeymoon' poem. Written in 1851, shortly after Matthew Arnold's marriage to Frances Lucy Wightman, it evokes quite literally the "sweetness and light" which Arnold famously found in the classical world, in whose image he formed his ideals of English culture. In fact, those public values are privatised in the very word the poem conjures for us: honeymoon. Dover Beach fundamentally seems to be about a withdrawal into personal values. Historical pessimism moves in swiftly as a tide.
Arnold's description of the noise of the waves is superbly accurate. Even when he ventures into Miltonic (and Greek) mode, with that "tremulous cadence slow," he maintains a certain realism. "Tremulous" may be emotive, but it also brilliantly evokes the soft rattling of the millions of pebbles and grits as the waves redistribute them.