Mathew Arnolds Poem
Matthew Arnold’s poem, “Dover Beach,” is a mysterious and dark perception of a man’s tortured emotion. Matthew Arnold’s use of diction and imagery in the poem, “Dover Beach,” portrays a man’s delusion of a paradise. Mathew’s choice of words in the poem brought the person’s feelings into understandable form. ... Mathew even states that what he sees puts “Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow of human misery”(724). ... Mathew’s imagery was used to portray the metaphoric delusion the person in the poem had on nature.