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Dover Beach" is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. [1] It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems; however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849. The most likely date is 1851. [2]
The poem was awarded a 1955 Glascock Prize [1] and appeared in Mademoiselle in August 1955, accompanying an article about the prize. [ 6 ] : 163 Plath used "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" as the title poem of a collection she submitted unsuccessfully to the Yale Series of Younger Poets , [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and as a working title ...
Though pitted by troughs and rivers, the English Channel was almost mainly land at the height of the last ice age. [6] The predominant geology of both and of the seafloor is chalk. Although somewhat resistant to erosion, erosion of both coasts has created the famous white cliffs of Dover in the UK and the Cap Blanc Nez in France.
While marine pollution can be obvious, as with the marine debris shown above, it is often the pollutants that cannot be seen that cause most harm.. Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.
It is a compilation of poems referring to the sea or the sea-shore. Sea-Drift follows the section titled A Broadway Pageant, and precedes the section By The Roadside. The poems included in Sea-Drift are: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life; Tears; To the Man-of War Bird; Aboard at a Ship's Helm; On the Beach ...
The scholar Steven Mentz argues that "the oceans .. figure the boundaries of human transgression; they function symbolically as places in the world into which mortal bodies cannot safely go". [44] In Mentz's view, the European exploration of the oceans in the fifteenth century caused a shift in the meanings of the sea.
Human activities affect marine life and marine habitats through overfishing, habitat loss, the introduction of invasive species, ocean pollution, ocean acidification and ocean warming. These impact marine ecosystems and food webs and may result in consequences as yet unrecognised for the biodiversity and continuation of marine life forms. [3]
The poem comprises five sections, each of six tercets, describing the same seascape as viewed from the deck of a ship. Each section repeats the description in different terms but uses recurring words (slopping, chocolate, umbrellas, green, blooms, etc.) and often the same syntax.