0
Macleef Posted 18 years ago

Help me understand the second stanza in Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold?

Can you please explain me thoroughly on what the following stanza in Dover Beach mean and the purpose of it? I don't understand anything in this stanza!

"Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Agean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea."

And the whole poem can be viewed in the following site:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/89.html
  

Top answer

Macleef Can you please explain me thoroughly on what the following stanza in Dover Beach mean and the purpose of it? I don't understand anything in this stanza! " Sophocles long ago Heard it on the A e gean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

— Feebs11

  • Macleef Can you please explain me thoroughly on what the following stanza in Dover Beach mean and the purpose of it?
  • I don't understand anything in this stanza!
  • " Sophocles long ago Heard it on the A e gean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
  • html The sound of the sea as it ebbs and flows reminded him of the way in which human misery comes and goes but is never clear in its nature.
  • Even in by a northern sea, we find such thoughts.
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

1 Answers
0
MacleefCan you please explain me thoroughly on what the following stanza in Dover Beach mean and the purpose of it? I don't understand anything in this stanza!
"Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find al
0

Related Questions