Wednesday, September 23.."Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

The following students did not turn in their “My Last Duchess” essays, which were due last Friday.

You now have an academic detention for this Thursday, September 25 immediately after school in 176. If you wish to avoid this, please turn in your essay. Anyone either not turning in the essay or writing after school on Thursday will have his or her name referred to the administration for a Saturday detention.

8^th period                                            4^th period

Seneca                                                 Xavier B.

Keion                                                   Rodney

Kalvon                                                Lauren                                                                            Raphael                                                Starr

Esteban

Xavier L.

Tim

Due on Friday: Hamlet vocabulary test 1
In class: 1) review of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sriCfeCZ64E

     2) writing response in notebook.  Please respond to the following in a well-written paragraph that incorporates textual evidence from the poem. It is not necessary to cite the lines, but mark any line breaks.
What is the speaker's assessment of the world?

 Please write the following definitions in your notebook:
1. pathetic fallacy-

1. the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature. Note that pathos means emotions / feelings
2. Here are three examples:
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   • he was miserable when it started to rain

   • she was gloomy when thunder struck

   • joyful tears came to Emily's eyes when the sun had come out and a rainbow appeared.

2. onomatopoeia-the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo,sizzle ).

3. free verse-poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
4. Romanticism-a style of art, literature, etc., during the from late 18th to mid 19th centuries that emphasized the imagination and emotions and a deep connection to nature.

5. anaphora-the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Dover Beach

BY MATTHEW ARNOLD

The sea is calm tonight.

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! you hear the grating roar

Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago

Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought

Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

Of human misery; we

Find also in the sound a thought,

Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

1.         

1.      Underline all unfamiliar words. List: 

2.      How many stanzas has the poem?__________

3.      What do we call a poem with no rhyme scheme? ________________________

4.      Look at stanza three. What are the repeated open vowels?_________________________
List of words: 

5.      What is the tone of the poem; that is what feeling is evoked?

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6.      The Romantic idea of pathetic fallacy is when the poet attributes or rather projects a human feeling onto an inanimate object. How does Arnold employ the literary technique of pathetic fallacy? ________________________

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7.      What verb is repeated in lines 1-4 to emphasize the scene?

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8.      In stanza 4, what words are repeated to emphasize the denial of basic human values?

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9.      What is the dramatic pledge that the speaker is asking?

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10.  To whom is the narrator speaking?

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