How does this show symbolically in the poem "Dover Beach,"" by Arnold? ... "Dover Beach" is a poem about such doubt and uncertainty. Arnold was a man on the brink between the old world and the new, right on the edge of the modern era, so he sees the inevitable downfall of the Victorian discourse: He places the poem on the shoreline and his character on a window "both thresholds "to signal his vision of the brink between two eras and his doubt, his loss of belief without yet being able to find something to replace it." ... And how does this translate into the poems (discussed in cl...

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In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserman writes, "During the summer in which Shelley began writing Frankenstein, Byron composed his poem "Prometheus," a celebration of the god's defiance of Jupiter which emphasizes Prometheus" unyielding will, noble suffering, and concern for mankind" (71). ... Wasserman declares, "Later, Hunt commented after the publication of Frankenstein that he too had thought of writing a poem entitled Prometheus Throned in which Prometheus would successfully defy the gods and be depicted as h...

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