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mathew arnold dover beach Arnold's focus in Dover Beach is on society's anxieties - the grim outcome of the Victorian times. The message is the negative impact of the industrial revolution on the poor and on future generations. Arnold places the ocean to stand in for the lifestyle many workers in those times experienced. The waves have a "turbid ebb and flow," back and forth rhythm: back to rest on shore and back to work the ocean waters forth, mirroring the lives of factory workers resting and working again and again. As in Sophocles days in Greece when he reflected the life of misery in his dramatic plays, he too "heard it on the Aegean," that never-ending drone of "human misery" . Arnold not only had it in for society's unnecessary drive for progress, (making people's lives miserable to accommodate for upper-society), but he also attacked religion as it...

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