Category: Matthew Arnold

Since the birth of our world, we have recorded plentiful amounts of changes to it. We have acknowledged this change through events such as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and the ice age and even climate change. This, however, is not the only change we see within the world. We have also seen various…

Progress is manifest destiny. Progress is civilizing the uncivilized, elevating the inhabitants of the third world and taming the savages that live off the land. Though progress may seem superficially as beneficial to society, it is occasionally viewed as the abandonment of many ideals, inevitably leading to many atrocities. Mathew Arnold, in his poem Dover…

During the first session of the seminar How to study culture, I was expecting to do the usual assignments and maybe prepare texts in order to be able to participate actively in the next session, but I was taught better. I quickly realized that the seminar was completely different to my initial prospects and could…

Matthew Arnold said: More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Discuss in relation to at least two Victorian Poems.!! Matthew Arnold believed that all art is dedicated to joy, this concept originated from the Greeks and is known…

The Study of Poetry is one of the quality works of Matthew Arnold and is taken into consideration one of the quality in English literary complaints. He wrote this essay at a time whilst one-of-a-kind critics have been speaking in opposition to literature. The touchstone approach enables readers to recognize the distinction between proper and…

Dover Beach is a four stanza poem written by Matthew Arnold that starts out with a quiet scene. It begins with the speaker looking out on the moonlit water and listening to the sound of the waves. The author describes that the night air is sweet as he stands on the pebbled shore looking out…

Matthew Arnold was born in 1822 in Laleham-on-Thames in Middlesex County, England. Due to some temporary childhood leg braces, and a competitiveness within the large family of nine young Matthew earned the nickname ‘Crabby’. His disposition was described as active, but since his athletic pursuits were somewhat hindered by this correction of a ‘bent leg’,…

While lecturing in America, Matthew Arnold wrote his poem Dover Beach in 1867. It is a free verse poem and does not follow any specific rhyme scheme and consists of 37 lines and 4 stanzas. Arnolds poem Dover Beach poem is about a person who is looking over the sea, and how this person is…