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Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
This is powerful because Arnold is saying that the world no longer has the great qualities it once had.

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humanity

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And naked shingles of the world. line 28. This shows the vulnerability that our different opinions hold and make us feel.

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Line 34: "Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain." The despair of Arnold is evident in this phrase, making the line incredibly powerful to me.

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Arnolds personification allows the reader to try and make connections with our world that the world of faith

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lines 30-34

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Misery

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Lines 24-25 are very powerful. "But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,". This adds to the idea that Arnold is focusing on misery.

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Line 33

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Line 17
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
of human misery"
It is most powerful because he mentions how human misery is never truly gone, just simply receding and coming back again sooner or later.

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misery

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I quite enjoyed the part In which Arnold references Sophocles. This shows that this, repetion and boringness of life has been going on for centuries.

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Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight

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Hopelessness

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"Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light" this shows that there comes a point in life where you feel almost nothing.

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"Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light..." The word powerful means impactful to the overall meaning of the story, so these depressing lines summarize how sad Arnold was.

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unstable

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Struggle

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Using personification gives the inanimate objects a human quality, which makes it easier for readers to notice the way that

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Complacenc

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I was persuaded to believe that this peom is actually about Misery, rather than repition.

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"The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the full, and round earths shore" This line is powerful in a way that it

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Dreary

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Which line of Arnold's "Dover Beach" is most powerful? Make sure you explain your interpretation of the word "powerful."

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Struggle

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Doesn't seem to fit well with your initial song choice.

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The author uses personification in order to impact the meaning of the poem so that the waves can also have human emotions and have a double meaning of also representing society.

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It changes the story by

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Misery

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Personification allows the audience to understand that they are similar to the sea. Ultimately, the "Sea of Faith" is composed of humans and their beliefs/actions. By humanizing the waves, the reader has an easier time conceptualizing the poems true meaning.

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Angst

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Arnolds personification humanizes some of the aspects of the poem allowing the reader to relate more easily, this affects the tone and the pacing of the poem. When a reader relates with an aspect of the poem they will inherently have a different, more familiar, reaction to such aspect which changes the underlying tone of the poem.

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Redemption

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Struggle

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Arnold used personification to humanize nature and portray human emotions in the inanimate objects.

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Misery

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Line 4, "The cliffs of England stand."

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Use one word to tell me the subject of this poem. Not the plot or setting, the subject.

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The use of personification is used to directly relate to things that we can feel and do. He uses this to make the readers related to what is happening.

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Nice!

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Arnold's use of personification emphasizes the feelings he has about human misery, sadness, loss of faith and hope in the world. It helps us relate to it better and helps us see the connections he is making with his use of personification.

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Arnold talks about how The Sea of Faith is "Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind." This relates to the theme

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Arnold's use of personification gives basic, melancholic descriptions to symbolize how complacency is a bad, dreary thing.

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Personification helped Arnold use the waves to portray human emotion

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Arnold's incorporation of personification of the sea and land throughout his poem justifies his feelings. When he describes the moon on the land as dreary, that is accepted. After I read through the poem a few times, I realized Arnold's use of personification was persuading our opinion of the land, since I picture the images he described as quite beautiful. In summary, Arnold's personification of the land is an expression of his feelings at the moment he wrote the poem, which ends up impacting the readers' interpretation of his poem.

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Arnold related the inanimate objects to people to more clearly show humanity's misery. By treating the objects like people, they seem more connected to human misery.

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The personification puts emphasis on the depression implied throughout the poem, using words like "melancholy" and "withdrawing".

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Arnold's use of personification, and any author's use of it, is to bring something to life and give it characteristics of something living. Arnold specifically talked about the sea of Faith sounding sad and not having anything left in it even though it used to be full.

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Arnold's use of personification impacts the poem by relating his feelings to non living things. His feelings are controlled by misery. Likewise, the personification shows how non living things can control the surrounding.

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Matthew Arnold's use of personification had changed throughout the poem once religion was mentioned. I had changed from a description to a metaphor for how the waves represent faith even throughout all the misery.

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Lines 29-31 changed the meaning of the poem by including the first part of a contrasting statement. This statement is a questioning thought Arnold has about why society takes the opportunities given to us and throws them out the window.

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He personified the inconsistency of human nature within strong parts of nature that demonstrate it. The ocean is the biggest example of this, and because he relating it for something so big you feel the powerful impact of this through the personification and imagery as well.

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Arnolds use of personification takes the most fundamental of feelings and places them into objects that have a clear purpose making them easy to understand. Ex: Waves & Misery. Tieing the two together creates clear representation that misery is fleeting.

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Arnold uses personification to relate it more to the human kind, as this poem is all about symbolism. It uses the beach to show how humans live in misery. The personification only relates it more to the reader so they feel closer to the text.

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Arnold's personification gave the poem some life and allowed us to use things like waves to relate to our own lives.

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Line 30-31
"To one another! for the world, which seems
to lie before us like a land a dreams."
At first this seems like a simile, which it also is, but it is also personification because the world cannot lie anywhere. This represents faith because heaven has also been described as a land of dreams. At the gates of heaven, the view has been described a sprawling landscape that lies before the newcomers.

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How did Arnold's use of personification impact the meaning of the poem?

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Do not forget to directly relate it to your theme.

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Is it still personification if the specified object could also be doing this "human" task? i.e. "The cliffs of England stand"

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"Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar," line 25. Arnold is talking about the Sea of Faith. This shows misery because it was once full and round earth's shore but now it is roaring in misery.

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A lot of students repeating the "roar" quote...personification would be using a human characteristic...

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Line 9-11, this part of the poem personifies the pebbles, saying they roar as the waves crash over them.

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A lot of students repeating the "roar" quote...personification would be using a human characteristic...when people roar it is typically used as onomatopoeia.

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Line number

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Line number 10-14
"Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease.........
The eternal note of sadness in. "
This relates to the theme from question one of melancholy because it is describing the waves as flinging pebbles (out of frustration?) and when they return, they keep repeating this action and eventually slow to bring in eternal sadness in.

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Line 25
"Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar"
Talking about the sea of faith: How it can roar and how the roar sounds sad.

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Line number 10-14

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personification....pebbles can't make verbal noise (if u read it in that context) I think you could interprut it either way and it would have different meanings

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Lines 1-2: "The light gleams and is gone"
In the first few lines of the poem, the struggle between light and dark is already evident.

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Is it intuitivety, or intuitivness?

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Line 10: "Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,"
If you view the pebbles as individuals in society, this line shows the back-and-forth of people and their relationship with faith, drawing in and submerging in it, or feeling as though it has abandoned you. The latter part of the statement refers to the isolation of my earlier statement. The preceding line also references the roar the waves make, tying into the echo of listening.

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Try describing why lines 8-14 do that

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Is the roar personification? or onomotopoeia?

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"you hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, at their return.." Lines 9-11
This relates to the idea of uncertainty, when the waves move back and forth, just like

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"Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling," This quote relates back to my theme because it shows how the waves constant cycle.

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"It's melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" In reference to The Sea of Faith

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Line 25. Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar. The withdrawing roar is mentioned to express the aggravation that is felt with the conflicting ideas. Even though it is digressing, the roar is to represent the struggle.

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Line 25-26 "Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath" The waves are decreasing which represents faith or optimism in the world. The personification brings the sea to life and completes the analogy of Humanity's struggle.

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"The sea is calm tonight." (line 1)
references the sea, and the calmness of the sea and ends it with a period. There are two important functions happening in the very first line, the calm sea is setting the tone and slowness of the rest of the stanza, and the period is there to intentionally to enhance both of those aspects.

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Lines 9+10
Listen! you hear the grating roar
of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling"

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"Hearing it by this distant Northern sea" Line 20
The personification of the Ocean "speaking", relates to my echo of of how the waves are representing the constant struggle between misery and joy.

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With tremulous cadence slow, and bring the eternal note of sadness in. Personification because the waves cannot bring in sadness to someone like this. This relates to human misery because while being there watching the waves, it causes Arnold to think about the true sadness he has within him.

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Arnold's use of imagery to portray struggle is symbolic of society's ever-changing relationship with faith.

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"With tremulous cadence slow, and bring-The eternal note of sadness in." Lines 13-14. It relates to my theme of misery since the slow waves that do nothing else but a monotonous sequence explain Arnold's feeling of life lacking a purpose.

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Not super convincing, however if you were to add some content to your argument both in terms of an argument and in terms of content from the story it has potential to come out very strong.

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Line 24-
"But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,"
Supports how the theme did not start out as dark as the end, but gradually descends into depression.

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Very persuasive and uses a great poetic technique to analyze the author's thoughts.

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I think that's definitely persuasive, you may want to narrow it down.

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Lines 13/14: With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. This is personification because it is saying that the waves are bringing the misery in. This relates to the theme by portraying how misery can control different aspects of one's life, even waves.

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line 30-31 "the world, which seems to lie before us-"

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"The cliffs of England stand" (I will find a better example) XD

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(line 30-31) "for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams,

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"Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar..." (Arnold Line 25). This shows that there is a constant motion of the waves, and therefore a constant state of misery.

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"Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams,"

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The echoes of misery and struggle resemble internal struggles within Matthew Arnold himself, not so much society.

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Find and share an example of personification (with the line number). Explain how it relates to the theme you addressed in Q1.