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Dover BeachThe sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; —on the French coast the lightGleams 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 sprayWhere the sea meets the moon-blanched land,Listen! You hear the grating roarOf 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 bringThe eternal note of sadness in.Sophocies long agoHeard it on the Aegean, and it broughtInto his mind the turbid ebb and flowOf human misery; weFind also in the sound a thought,Hearing it by this distant northern sea.The sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth"s shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the worldAh, love, let us be trueTo one another! For the world, which seemsTo 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 plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night.—Matthew Arnold
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Who is the speaker here? Who is he addressing? (4 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：The poem"s speaker is a person in love, presumably Matthew Arnold. The poem is addressed to his or her lover.
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What is the speaker"s mood? Show what elements contribute to this mood. (4 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：The speaker is quite sentimental. He dramatizes the crashing waves upon the beach. But Instead of enjoying the lovely, calm scene, this speaker"s mind turns to universal sadness. The crashing waves beginning and ceasing remind him primarily of negativity. The speaker then supports his mournful view by alluding to Sophocles" hearing the "ebb and flow" long ago "on the Aegean."
【答案解析】解析：叙述者当时比较伤感，这从他所描述的海浪以及采用的爱情海典故中可以发现。
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Identify the elements of figurative language and show how they contribute to the tone and theme. (5 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：The author employs various elements of figurative languages in depicting the sea. The poem mainly employs metaphors and shifts constantly from the sea to life. The conventional devices of lyric poems—alliteration ("long"-"like", "lay"-"like"), assonance ( "England"-" stand", "sea"-"meets") and anaphora are also applied.
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What is the tone of this poem? What details - specific words and events - contribute to the establishment of the tone? (5 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：The tone of the piece is determined by the constant presence of "melancholy" and "misery" in the poem that stretch on into the distance with a "long withdrawing roar...". The calmness of the narrative voice with which the piece is set to work ("the sea is calm to-night./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair.") is essential for the descriptive nature of the first stanza. Yet, later on its role is to emphasize the negativity in the tone of the poem: "But now I only hear /It"s melancholy...", "Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow /of human misery...". The end of the piece, however, implies that the alteration of the things around us is something inevitable. The tone changes in the last verse of the poem in the sense that it now not simply resents mutability, but is also a tone pleading with the reader to realize nothing is as stable and reliable as one perceives it, not to take the world for granted, and to stay "true/ to one another".
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What is the tone of this poem? What details contribute to this? (6 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：This is a poem of a man who is trying to inform the world that it destine for change, change from religion to science because before this time people used religion as a guide to life and not science. This poem shows how people lose faith in God but in the discovery of science and with that it destroys the values of future generations. He explains how this world is set for destruction with chaos and pain and the only true way to escape this is heaven which is only achievable through death. He was a man before his time who knew that when science toppled religion it would cause human nature to destroy itself, thus showing us his strong religious faith.
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Do you think the view of human life presented in Dover Beach is applicable to today"s world? Why or why not? (4 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：It is hard to do the justice to the negative view of the author presented in Dover Beach. In view of today"s world, we, human beings are likely to possess this point of view, especially when we are faced to global warming and other man-made disasters. However, it is not right to blame all the wrongdoings to science and technology while ignoring the wrong hands using it for their own benefits.