Name: Michael Williams __________________________________________
Period:____D4_______
TP-CASTT
Title: What predictions can you
make from the title? What are your
initial thoughts about the poem?
What might be the theme of the
poem?
Paraphrase: Rewrite the poem in
your own words.
Connotation: Write the connotative
A great day at the beach. They go the beach for their vacation as a
family.
In the poem ‘Dover Beach’ Arnold is describing the slow and solemn
rumbling sound made by the sea waves as they swing backward and
forward on the pebbly shore. One can clearly hear his monotonous
sound all the time. The withdrawing waves roll the pebbles back
towards the sea, and then after a pause, the returning waves roll them
up on shore.
The kind of writer’s hidden meaning either personal or public is called
or interpretive meaning of the poem.
connotation. For example in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” consists
What’s below the surface? What is the of four, each containing a variable number of verses.
connotative meaning of the poem?
Find examples of imagery, metaphors,
similes, etc. and elaborate on their
connotative meanings.
Attitude: What attitude does the poet “Arnold’s “Dover Beach” lamenting the transition from an age of
have toward the subject of the poem?
certainty into an era of erosion of traditions Modernism is the backbone
Find and list examples that illustrate
of all four stanzas of the poem, brought together in our imagination by
the tone and mood of the poem.
the nostalgic image of the sea.
The use of diction brings the reader toward two separate tones, yet they
tone/attitude of the poem? Where is
uniquely contribute to general felling of pessimism that Matthew
the shift? What does the tone shift to? Arnold portrays.
Shift: Is there a shift in the
Title: Revisit the title and explain
any new insights it provides to the
meaning of the poem. Discuss the
meaning on an interpretive level.
Theme: What is the overall theme of
the poem? What is the poet saying?
“Dover Beach is a part of a short lyric poem by the English poet
Matthew Arnold. It was published in 1867 in the collection of new
poems, but surviving notes that indicates its composition.
Is human misery and it is not permanent like the ebbing and flowing of
the waves.
Name: Michael Williams __________________________________________
Period:____D4_______