dover beach

DOVER BEACH

By Matthew Arnold

The sea(

暗喻信仰）

is calm tonight,

The tide is full,

the moon

（意象）

lies fair (

孤独

loneliness)

Upon the straits; on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil

平静的宁静的

bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night air!

Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! you hear the grating

（刺耳的）

roar

Of pebbles

（卵石）

which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous

（震耳欲聋的）

cadence

节奏

slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

（点睛之笔，奠定全文基调）

（美景意象的铺垫，景色意象对比，大自然景色变化映射人类人生的不确定性

uncer tainty

）

Sophocles

long ago

Heard it on the Agean, and it brought

Into his mind the

turbid

（浑浊的，污浊的）

ebb

（退潮）

and flow

Of human misery; we

Find also in the sound a thought,

Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

（用典

allusion

，索福克勒斯，古希腊三大悲剧诗人之一，由于人文缺失，引发

悲伤， 时代不同，却有共同感受。

Ebb

隐喻，暗喻人性的退潮缺失）

The Sea of Faith

（明喻）

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Was once,

too, at the full, and round earth's shore

Lay like the folds of a bright

girdle

隐喻

furled.< /p>

有信仰生活的美好

But

（

t ransition

）

now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing

,

愤怒批判

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear

阴郁的阴沉的

And naked shingles of the world.