English essay

[NOBLESTABBINGS]

Hey to all you literary nerds!

I'm slowly chipping away at an essay on Matthew Arnold's awesome poem "Dover Beach". Has anyone read/analyzed/critiqued this poem before? I'm having a hard time coming up with 1500 words describing the social/political events inspiring this poem. It seems to speak of the world losing its faith in God.

For those who haven't read it, I know it's on the internet if you Google that shiz.

Any help would definitely be appreciated. I'm totally pulling an all-nighter on this tonight.

[lushintransit]

Hey to all you literary nerds!

I'm slowly chipping away at an essay on Matthew Arnold's awesome poem "Dover Beach". Has anyone read/analyzed/critiqued this poem before? I'm having a hard time coming up with 1500 words describing the social/political events inspiring this poem. It seems to speak of the world losing its faith in God.

For those who haven't read it, I know it's on the internet if you Google that shiz.

Any help would definitely be appreciated. I'm totally pulling an all-nighter on this tonight.


I'll respond in a little bit on once I find my old lit notes...there's really no need for an all nighter on a 1,500 word paper lol.

[lushintransit]

Well, if we're grasping at any social/political occurences in the poem, the most obvious one to me is the France V. English comparission brought up in " Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;" and later lines. These straits are also part of the calm prior to the religious freak-out described under this.

Most of the poem is about the Victorian age and the shift away from religion during it. To put it in laments terms, it was popular of the time to freak out about God. Is he there? Is he not? What does he? What does She do? Omg, what it this all!? That's a social issue.

There's a lot to write about with that.

[NOBLESTABBINGS]

Thanks for the tip! Wasn't this also around the time that Darwin started publishing his work? I gotta look that up, but if I'm correct, I'd bet that Darwinism was probably changing many minds as well.

And for the all-nighter thing, when you're me, you get easily distracted and can't focus. 1500 can be a stretch, depending on how long I keep myself from listening to music and such.

[takingbackrufio]

Kind of relative to the topic - I'm an awful procrastinator, but find that I work much better under pressure. With that in mind, I usually don't start my essays until the night before they are due at about 10 PM. :-D

[johnx]

We critiqued it in class one time in practice for the NYS English regents, I don't remember it though.

I skilled the regents though, 97 bitches.

[johnx]

Kind of relative to the topic - I'm an awful procrastinator, but find that I work much better under pressure. With that in mind, I usually don't start my essays until the night before they are due at about 10 PM. :-Dhahaha same here. The more time I have, the worse I write.

[lushintransit]

Thanks for the tip! Wasn't this also around the time that Darwin started publishing his work? I gotta look that up, but if I'm correct, I'd bet that Darwinism was probably changing many minds as well.

And for the all-nighter thing, when you're me, you get easily distracted and can't focus. 1500 can be a stretch, depending on how long I keep myself from listening to music and such.

give or take, yes.

How'd the paper end up going?