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Matthew Arnold

Author

To Marguerite: Continued

Samantha Brigida

Sofia Del Tavano

Sources:

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Matthew Arnold

1888

dies in Liverpool

teacher at Rugby School, private secretary to Lord Lansdowne, Inspector of Schools and Professor of Poetry

1822

1860s

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YEARS:

Born in Laleham, England

AS AN ESSAYIST:

On Translating Homer (1861)

Essays In Criticism (1865-1868)

Culture And Anarchy (1869)

POETIC PHASE:

Empedocles on Etna and other poems (1852)

Poems: a new edition (1853)

New Poems (1867)

RELIGIOUS PHASE

St. Paul and protestantism (1870)

God and the Bible (1875)

Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877)

studies in Oxford and Oriel; first poetic achievements:

"Cromwell"

1840s-1860s

1870s

1843

Poetic

Contrasts and disunity

Pursuit of perfection

Three divisions:

  • love poems and elegies
  • narrative and dramatic poems
  • reflective and "gnomic" verses

Empedocles on Etna

1852

Dramatic poem

Empedocles

on Etna

“It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends.”

Empedocles

490 BC, Sicily - 430 BC, Greece

Empedocles

"From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals."

“No, thou art come too late, Empedocles!

And the world hath the day, and must break thee,

Not thou the world. With men thou canst not live,

Their thoughts, their ways, their wishes, are not thine;

And being lonely thou art miserable,

For something has impair'd they spirit's strength,

And dried its self-sufficing font of joy.”

Text

Empedocles on Etna

Analysis

  • The poem is singsong
  • The rhyming scheme is ABABC
  • The line are short and simple
  • The reading is rapid and fluid

"Carpe diem"

Message

To Marguerite

A poem of isolation

Yes! in the sea of life enisled,

With echoing straits between us thrown,

Dotting the shoreless watery wild,

We mortal millions live alone.

The islands feel the enclasping flow,

And then their endless bounds they know.

But when the moon their hollows lights,

And they are swept by balms of spring,

And in their glens, on starry nights,

The nightingales divinely sing;

And lovely notes, from shore to shore,

Across the sounds and channels pour—

Oh! then a longing like despair

Is to their farthest caverns sent;

For surely once, they feel, we were

Parts of a single continent!

Now round us spreads the watery plain—

Oh might our marges meet again!

Who order'd, that their longing's fire

Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?

Who renders vain their deep desire?—

A God, a God their severance ruled!

And bade betwixt their shores to be

The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

Dover Beach

1867

Dover

Beach

The sea is calm to-night.

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; – on the French coast the light

Gleams 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 spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanch’d land,

Listen! you hear the grating roar

Of 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 bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Dover Beach

Analysis

  • the rhyming scheme doesn't comply
  • enjambement
  • fast pace
  • metaphor of the sea

Sophocles

496 BC, Colonus - 406 BC, Athens

Sophocles

"Man knows no other happiness than the one he is imagining, and then, once the illusion is over, he falls into the pain of all time."

Science vs Faith

Message

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