CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ARNOLDS POEMS DOVER BEACH AND SHAKESPEARE CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF DOVER BEACH Dover Beach is one

of the most famous poems of Matthew Arnold. Its central theme is the lose of the faith and poets dissatisfaction with his age. The poem was written in 1851 to 1852 and published in 1867 in the collection of poems called new poems. Immediately after his marriage he went to Dover Beach with his wife Francis Lucy Whitman, even in the company of this type happiness, in this romantic situation have no sources of comfort to him, the reason is that poet feels a strange type of melancholy to see the loss of faith and his dissatisfaction with the age. The poem called-Arnoldian Melancholy. Nature description: The poem begins with the beautiful description of the sea of dover. The poet is standing on the sea shore. The sea is clam tonight The tide is full the moon lies fair The sea is clam, the tide is full Dover Beach is full of moonlight and the waves are constantly advancing and retreating rhythmically. There is no sign of man except a light which shins for a movement and then disappears, the prebels are laying on the coast. The rise and fall of the musical sound caused by the receding and advancing waves brings to Arnold mind a note of sadness as he says. Listen you hear the grating roar of pebber which the waves draw back and flings. At their return up the high stand.

Loss of faith:- The poet reminds us of the old time when the people were devoted to the religions and moral thoughts. Here the poet has used very beautiful metaphor to the sea. The comparison is most appropriate and suits the present time. In the past of heart of man was full of faith and moral thoughts, but now human heart is dry like the shore of sea. Religious faith has disappeared and the world is full of doubts and disbelief have forced the waves of faith to retreat from the shore of the world, so the world is without faith and man has become skeptical. There is only misery and sadness left from him. The world which has doubt and disbelief is like coast on which naked pebbles lie in total desolation. He compares the world to a dark battle field where aims are fighting with each other. The sea of faith Was one too at the full and round earth shore Lay like the folds of bright griddle furl A great Elegy: Dover Beach is one of the great elegy of English literature. It represents a note of sadness of the people of the generation. The poem shows poet laments for the decline of religious faith The whole poem is full of melancholic treatment. Even the waves of the sea and pebbles represents the condition of faith in the heart of people. It was the time of material progress of England, but on the other hand it struck with pessimistic note because for the poet there is no religious faith in the heart of people. The poet there is no religious faith in the heart of people. The poet addresses his wife and tells her that he finds there is no joy or comfort because world is full of doubt. Arnold gives a beautiful image that people without faith in this world are as on a place enveloped with darkness people are ignorant of

their own actions. There lives are loveless confusion of struggle and fight they are sold pens who fight having no knowledge of their own actions. As he saysAh! Love, let us be true To one another! For the world which seems. To lie before us like a land of dreams so various so beautiful, so new Poetic beauty- Poem is great Elegy and dramatic mono languages so, it is written in black verse. The poem is reparable for its imagery. There is a beautiful description of natural beauty of Dover, The poem is full figure of speech, like alteration, smile anaphora and specially metaphor. Conclusion-Arnold is a great Victorian poet but he only the melancholic trait of the time. He is a passionate poet. His poetry is full of melancholy note. A.C. Culler- Dover Beach is modern poem because it is deeply rolted with modern thought. The poem shows uncertainty of doubts of his age. According to him religious faith was shaken by the development of materialism. And scientific ideas of Victorian age. The poem is true picture of Victorian society. J.D. jump-Doven Beach is I believe a great poem and it is the one work even in the briefest anthology of great English poems

CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF SHAKESPEARE Mathew Arnold is regarded as a great critic. He is supposed to be a poet of classes. We find great morals in his compositions. Like romantic he was not a singer or lyricst. He raised the curtain of human miseries and difficulties of their life, Matthew Arnold shows the grief and pain and the helplessness of people. As Arnold the greatest elegiac poet of Victorian age his compositions or poem are full of pessimism. These are dipped in melancholic mood. Shakespeare is a homage to Shakespeare is a homage to Shakespeare by Arnold. Shakespeare is one of the most popular sonnet by Arnold. He sings this poem of administration of Shakespeare lefe and personality. He has described his qualities effectively. Shakespeare: Ab tribute by Arnold In the poem Shakespeare the poet Arnold has admired Shakespeare for his greatness according to Arnold. Shakespeare soul sings the song of mans grief and misfortunes with the core of his heart This sonnet is a wonderful creation by poet exposing the greatness of the immortal soul of Shakespeare. He has imparted the height of praise to Shakespeares art particularly in this tribute. Arnold expresses that art has spiritual height, it is not easy to understand his art entirely. Shakespeare was the greatest dramatist of English literature, it is not an easy task to bind him within the limitations of administration. Though during his life he was not understood properly by the critics but later his art brought a revolution in the field of literature. Development of thought: - Arnold had expressed that the greatness and the art of Shakespeare is a difficult and vast subject for the critics to be studied

entirely- Shakespeare is really beyond range, he is entire literature not single subject. Arnold compares the greatness of Shakespeare with a huge and sovereign mountain whose bottom is dipped into vast sea and the top of this high mountain touches and kisses the clouds and stars has spirituality in his personality and art for the critics it is not an easy task to understand or study him properly or entirely, he preferred self honors. He guided himself and moulded his art and personality. His tragedies comedies are all mirror of his personality and his art. Sensuousness The poem is full of beautiful diction and sensuousness. The very opening of the poem is quite effective in reference of sensuousness Mathew Arnold has made the poem decorated with impressive For the loftiest fill who the stars uncrowns his majesty. Planting his stead fast footsteps in the sea The above lines are quit impressive and are full of sensuousness. Stanzas of poem are composed taking the picture of the natural sensuousness by Mathew Arnold. The imagery of huge mountain is the beautiful reference of cloudy sky as well as base in the sea is quit sensuousness. Beautiful picture Shakespeare character- Shakespeare is really a great homage to Shakespeare the greatest dramatist. Through Arnold has truly declared that Shakespeare is the poet whose appreciation is beyond the capacity of critics to understand him fully. Arnold has admired Shakespeare art capacity calling this like a huge mountain touching high sky with its top and base in wave of sea.

Shakespeare is also human being he took birth and entered into this world but on the contrary his artistic values were quit spiritual and immortal, he was self honored person who realized all the suffering and pain of commons. All pains the immortal spirit mustrndure all weakness which impairs all grief which how Poetic Beauty- The poem is decorated with impressive figures of speech as simile metaphor and hyperbole that makes the language of poem appreciated and artistic. This is touch of sweet music alone in the poem. The structure of sonnet is partly patrician and party Shakespeare the rhyme-scheme being abba, acca, de de ff. Thus Mathew Arnold has depicted a true picture of a great and immortal soul of Shakespeare. It is one of the greatest and warmest tributes to Shakespeare.