The Surf

The author integrates many figures of speech to express the theme of love and unity. Located in the third stanza on the last line, the alliteration of the L sound strengthens the idea of the two couple’s love since L sounds are long and they last, lingering in the reader’s mind. Another figure of speech used is the phrase changing tide which is a metaphor for representing the “highs” and “lows” of one’s relationship. Every stanza always starts with the phrase; sitting on the beach chairs, this repetition reinforces the idea of relaxation and enjoyment the two couples are having. They are still united after enduring obstacles life throws at them because of the repeated phrase holding hands.

Though written in a very light and simple manner, the poem comes across as something very profound, laden with meaning through its incongruities. The persona, wanting to see something, often goes to the well and looks down at the water to see it. This certain search below the water's surface can be compared to man's search beneath the human experience for meaning, for certainty.

Bishop’s “The Fish” and Wright’s “A Blessing” are structured around metaphorical imagery to create balance between beauty that is known and unknown. Both poems intentionally begin and end with meticulous imagery for the reader to see through the story. Visionary insights of the speaker’s experience in each poem every step of the way builds the readers imagination.

This poem strikes hard wild understanding. Creative reading seems very present in Edgar Allen Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream". There is the constant need for re-reading. After totally understanding it seems like a troubled poem. It takes about how we, as the reader or observer, might not really exist, but rather that we are just a mere shape in a dream of another. In lines 12-24 Poe expresses a deep image. It takes the reader back to the times they sat on a beach with the waves pushing the sand past, except Poe thinks about the sand and the water and where it is all headed. But can't we relate this to our own lives? "I stand amid the roar/Of a surf-tormented shore" (12-13). Take high school for instance... We (high school students) stand among thousands of teenagers everyday contemplating the very existence of this institution filled with too many emotions for crazy, hormonal teenagers.

Roger Waters is, in my opinion, the greatest English songwriter and musical artist of all time. If you don’t know who Waters is, he is the main lyricist and singer of the popular psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. The meanings in the poem like lyrics impact, or impacted, the lives of many people including myself. The flow and general feel of the music seems to relax the brain, at least from my experience. The hidden stories to his music is incredible as well as the phrasing and use of his language, although there are some bad things about his music.

The reasoning of why I chose this poem, considering that it falls in the category of all living organisms. It’s that our own selves come with a deadline, but the world we live in keeps revolving. In my eyes, it signifies that no one person is greater than the other as each one of us are alike. This poem caught my interest with all images shown from the text. It certainly makes me feel all of what the author is attempting to visibly demonstrate. This poem displays what occurs in everyday life as one goes away the world keeps moving, further new forms of life make it back. The Tide Rises, The Tide falls, it's a wonderful poem that explains nature. It relates to our world in the sense of all living organisms, being replaced, our world keeps moving forward.

In the first stanza of the poem, Williams paints a picture of a sea. However, Williams’ beach is not a stereotypical Hawaiian paradise, with ladies tanning in the hot sun, children splashing in the warm water, and floral towels lined up in rows along the soft white sand. Instead, Williams places himself in a beach in Labrador, as suggested by the title. He describes a setting where jagged rocks cast dark shadows in the cold water. Grey waves break against cliffs with crushing force and ice begins to top it’s bottomless pool.

In order to express his feeling, he used symbolism and metaphor to give a deeper meaning to his words. The poem was wrote in couplets, and used alliteration to make it rhyme and to give the sad melody that accompanied the feelings behind the frustration expressed in the poem. The tone is very emotional, sad, sober, melancholically, and dark. It is evident when he used words like sorrow, stormy, ill, torrent, lighting, storm, and demon.

In the beginning of the poem, the tone is rather peaceful and relaxing. Ruth and Brian describe, “The wind runs free across our plains/ The live sea beats forever at our beaches” (Lines 1-2). The beach is being describes as calm, no one is worrying about a thing. Conversely, towards the middle of the poem, the tone switches to more of an outrage.

I chose to do my literary analysis essay on the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold. The reason for that is because I really enjoyed Arnold's literature. My response is going to include my interpretation of the overall piece of literature, an evaluation of the author's use of literary elements, as well as figurative language, and how the piece is enhanced through sound.

I chose this poem because it it talks about how people come and they go just like a tide does. This poem is interesting to me because it talks about death waiting for you and the waves represent life in many forms. This poem is related to the world we live in because many people live without accomplishing their dreams, many forget to live in the moment and decide to live in the past.

sees nature as the only constant in the world that is rapidly evolving. In the first stanza, the sea is

Stevens supports that, in trying to make the essence of nature understandable, the people in the poem inevitably personify the sea. It is almost impossible for humans to see things in inhuman terms. For example, the sea has a "body" (3) and a "cry"

The first twelve lines of the poem start out peaceful and soothing, using imagery to paint the setting of Dover Beach with sweeping artistic brush strokes. However, at line thirteen, when Arnold mentions the "tremulous cadence" of the waves, the reader detects the first hint of a shift in tone. In the fourteenth line, the tone of the poem switches from tranquil and calm to depressed and melancholy. In the second stanza, Arnold alludes to the Greek tragedian, Sophocles, and how he heard the same "eternal note of sadness" as the speaker, albeit along the shore of the Aegean Sea. As the speaker begins to describe the receding sea of faith, it is readily apparent that he feels an overwhelming sense of despair and hopelessness. In the last stanza, the tone switches yet again, becoming slightly desperate and pleading. He laments that the majestic wonder and beauty of the world, described in the poem's first stanza, is nothing but a lie and an illusion, and that the real world is a cold, dark, and lonely place that has become a battleground for the faithless. The speaker pleads with his lover that they will remain true to each other, because now she is the only source of goodness left in the world for