Mathew Arnold takes an interesting approach and four stanzas in order to get his point of the poem Dover Beach across. The prior three stanzas are necessary to the main idea though. Arnold begins by describing three bodies of water, the English Channel, Aegean Sea, and Sea of Faith. The description of the English Channel brings forth the idea of sorrow and "human misery", which is continued with a comparison to the Aegean Sea, emphasizing the eternal quality of this human misery. The Sea of Faith is then used to express the decrease in faith, "but now I only hear it's melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, refresting." This poem is very depressing up to this point, but takes a sharp turn in the fourth stanza. The entire poem is about the tragedies and miserable qualities of life. However, Arnold presents a solution to this problem. "Ah, love, let us be true to kne another! For the world.." He says that despite the horrible qualities of this world, they, he and his lover, can face them together.
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