Dover Beach

Which choice best expresses the meaning of the last stanza? "Ah, 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, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain: / And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night."

• War is a confusing struggle, which is fought by ignorant people.

• Conditions in the world are terrible now, and they will only get worse.

• The world is indifferent to us, and love is our only hope for a sense of meaning.

• This world may seem dreamlike, but it is really a nightmare.

Which definition most closely matches the way the word fling is being used in line 10 "Listen! you hear the grating roar / Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, / At their return, up the high strand, / Begin, and cease, and then again begin, / With tremulous cadence slow, and bring / The eternal note of sadness in"

• To throw

• To move

• To dance

• A brief time of unrestrained pleasures

In the poem, the speaker is -

• sailing on a ship in the English Channel.

• fighting in a war in France.

• swimming in the Aegean Sea.

• looking out to sea from the English coast.

What does the speaker compare to waves pulling back from the shore?

• Loss of religious faith.

• Ships sailing into the channel.

• Armed conflict.

• Lovers parting.

Which phrase expresses a negative view of the world and humanity's place in it?

• Listen! you hear the grating roar

• The turbid ebb and flow / Of human misery

• With tremulous cadence slow

• Ah, love, let us be true / To one another!

In lines 10 - 13, the poet uses commas to break up the rhythm of the poem, most likely to -

• emphasize that the speaker's experience inspired the poem.

• convey the speaker's feelings of sadness to the reader.

• imitate the sound of the waves going in and out on the beach.

• help the reader understand how the sea represents religious faith.

Identify the sound device used in the second line "The tide is full, the moon lies fair."

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Repetition

The sound devices used below helps create which mood?

To one another! for the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams, / So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor lights, / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night.

• Melancholy mood.

• Serious mood.

• Anxious or ominous mood

• Happy mood

How many lines are in Dover Beach

• 42

• 40

• 37

• 36

What is the central theme of 'Dover Beach'?

• The conflict between science and religion

• The beauty of nature

• The loss of faith and certainty

• The power of love