DOVER BEACH

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POINT OF VIEW

• Couple in love
• Contemplating the hard stuff

SYMBOLS

• Sea
• Tide
• Night
• Darkling Plain

THEMES

• Earth is a bleak reality we rarely acknowledge
• "Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor help for pain"
• Cultural progression decreases humanity's general Faith
• "Sophocles long ago heard it...his mind the turbid
• Ebb and flow of human misery"

SIMPLE START

TRANSITION

• "Listen! you hear the grating roar
• of pebbles which the waves draw
• back, and fling, at their return..."

FLOW

CHAOS

WHY DOES IT MATTER?