Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold Summary
Dover Beach” -Matthew Arnold Introduction of the poem ‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold was published in 1867 in the volume entitled New Poems. He wrote this poem shortly after visiting with his wife, Frances Lucy Whitman, to the Dover region of south-east England. The poem is a dramatic monologue, in which the poet is lamenting on the loss of Christian faith in England during the mid-1800s as science captured the minds of the public. The speaker of the poem is the poet himself. The poem shows the poet’s concerns for the diminishing faith and values of Christianity and being unable to withstand the rising tide of scientific discoveries the poet laments on the new research and intellectual enquir...