dover beach

e hidden nature of the soul. When self-knowledge is achieved the buried stream of life becomes an ordinary river. These two words are different from his ordinary selection of common words. With respect to Arnolds other works, he uses them seldomly. In the end of The Buried Life Arnold goes back to using simple words. The ending of The Buried Life carries a soothing sense of self-awareness, rest, and calm experienced through contact with a loved person (Roe 146). This is due to Arnolds images of a lull in the hot race and An air of coolness plays upon his face. Also, in the conclusion of the poem, Arnold includes an image of hills. By turning the paper of the poem sideways, the lines now look like hills. The hills mentioned in The Buried Life are similar to the range of emotions that the speaker goes through in the poem. His spirits constantly go up and down, depending on his moods of hope and despair. Many comparisons can be make between Matthew Arnolds poems Dover Beach and The Buried Life. The themes of both poems have in common the general decline of faith, and as a result of this the speaker of the poem feels a sense of melancholy and resentment. Another belief that Arnold expresses in both poems is that through a successful relationship two lovers may escape their ordinary lives and selves. They could possibly discover certain beliefs which are not found in an age of religious skepticism. The idea of love is similar in both poems. In Dover Beach and The Buried Life love is regarded as redemption. Like Dover Beach, the poem The Buried Life makes a compelling claim for romantic love (Collini 46). When Our eyes can in anothers eyes read clear it is possibly that A man becomes aware of his ...