Q 1 :- Moonlight for Arnold does not go with roses and romance but with melancholy, meditation and sometimes even despair. Discuss.
Ans:- Arnold's "Dover Beach" laments the loss of faith in God and religion. Misery, sadness and melancholy dominate all through the poem. The onslaught of modernity seems to erode the placid citadel of certainty. The poet clings to love as being the only solace and consolation. He emotionally says "Ah love, let us be true/ to one another, And it is the only true certainty as the world around falls to pieces under "struggle" and "fight."
The poem presents the ephemeral human feeling of sadness through the image of the sea. The sea image is significant because it is a grim reminder of "the eternal note of sadness" in the life of human beings. The expression "The Sea of Faith" is obviously a metaphor for unflinching faith in spirituality and religion. The poet expresses his view that despair, hopefulness and melancholy in the world is due to the decline of religious faith. When the poet hears the grating roar of pebbles of the sea he is reminded of the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" of faith as it retreats from men's minds. The sounds created by pebbles represent "an eternal note of sadness", Arnold here alludes to Sophocles, who in ancient Greece heard the sound of pebbles on the shore of the Aegean sea. This sound reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. Similarly the poet hears the same sound on the Dover Beach and is reminded of the receding faith in God and religion as the cause of human suffering.
In fact "Dover Beach" is a better expression of Arnold's loss of faith and his melancholous and pessimistic view of life. The world seemed to him strangely unreal without anything real to cling to. It has beauty and loveliness but there is in it neither love nor joy nor light nor peace. Men are seen to be struggling in the world with armies struggling on a plain at night. There is a sound of "confused alarms of struggles and flight where ignorant armies clash by night."
In a world devoid of faith as well as shorn of strength Arnold learns upon love will create an atmosphere of certainty by restoring man's inveterate faith in religion and in goodness of the world. He says with a note of optimism:
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.
In the world beset with the gloom of despair and loneliness, melancholy and pessimism Arnold looks on love as the only comforting thing for men to fall back upon. Amidst all the turbid ebb and flow of human misery and spiritual desiciation love is the consolation. Arnold adroitly and assertively tells of true love as a spiritualizing force in alleviating the evils of the strife- torn world where there is really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
Ans:- Arnold's "Dover Beach" laments the loss of faith in God and religion. Misery, sadness and melancholy dominate all through the poem. The onslaught of modernity seems to erode the placid citadel of certainty. The poet clings to love as being the only solace and consolation. He emotionally says "Ah love, let us be true/ to one another, And it is the only true certainty as the world around falls to pieces under "struggle" and "fight."
The poem presents the ephemeral human feeling of sadness through the image of the sea. The sea image is significant because it is a grim reminder of "the eternal note of sadness" in the life of human beings. The expression "The Sea of Faith" is obviously a metaphor for unflinching faith in spirituality and religion. The poet expresses his view that despair, hopefulness and melancholy in the world is due to the decline of religious faith. When the poet hears the grating roar of pebbles of the sea he is reminded of the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" of faith as it retreats from men's minds. The sounds created by pebbles represent "an eternal note of sadness", Arnold here alludes to Sophocles, who in ancient Greece heard the sound of pebbles on the shore of the Aegean sea. This sound reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. Similarly the poet hears the same sound on the Dover Beach and is reminded of the receding faith in God and religion as the cause of human suffering.
In fact "Dover Beach" is a better expression of Arnold's loss of faith and his melancholous and pessimistic view of life. The world seemed to him strangely unreal without anything real to cling to. It has beauty and loveliness but there is in it neither love nor joy nor light nor peace. Men are seen to be struggling in the world with armies struggling on a plain at night. There is a sound of "confused alarms of struggles and flight where ignorant armies clash by night."
In a world devoid of faith as well as shorn of strength Arnold learns upon love will create an atmosphere of certainty by restoring man's inveterate faith in religion and in goodness of the world. He says with a note of optimism:
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.
In the world beset with the gloom of despair and loneliness, melancholy and pessimism Arnold looks on love as the only comforting thing for men to fall back upon. Amidst all the turbid ebb and flow of human misery and spiritual desiciation love is the consolation. Arnold adroitly and assertively tells of true love as a spiritualizing force in alleviating the evils of the strife- torn world where there is really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
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