Abstract Matthew Arnold is a great British Victorian poet and leading social critic in Victorian Period。 Many of Matthew Arnold’s literary works reflect the contradictory psychology in the 19 century, of which Dover Beach ranks high。 This thesis takes Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach as an example。 It analyzes this poem to reflect the problem of the crisis of faith at that time from three aspects:  the Victorian Period background, the interpretation of the poem and the phenomenon of the crisis of faith。 Then, this thesis supplies suggestions for the crisis of faith: when we face the crisis of faith, we should keep an optimistic attitude。76026

Key words: Matthew Arnold ; Victorian Period ; Dover Beach ; the Crisis of  faith

摘要马修·阿诺德是维多利亚时期英国一位伟大的诗人和社会评论家。许多马修·阿诺德的文学作品都反映了19世纪时期的人们的心理矛盾。其中，就以《多佛海滩》最具有代表性。本文以马修·阿诺德的《多佛海滩》为例，从维多利亚时代背景、诗的解读和信仰危机的现象三个方面分析这首诗来反映那个时代的信仰问题。接着，本文针对信仰缺失的问题给出建议：当我们面对信仰缺失问题之时，我们应该保持一种乐观积极的心态。

毕业论文关键词：马修·阿诺德；维多利亚时代；《多佛海滩》；信仰缺失

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

3。 The Analysis of the Poem 3

3。1 The background of the poem in Victorian Period 3

3。2 The interpretation of the the poem 4

3。3 The phenomenon of the crisis of faith 5

4。 The Causes of the Crisis of faith 5

4。1 The cause of the development of industrial revolution 5

4。2 The cause of the development of technology 6

5。 Solutions to the Issue 6

5。1 The rise of the middle class 7

5。2 Cultural salvation by means of education 8

6。 Conclusion 9

Works Cited 11

1。 Introduction 

Matthew Arnold is a great Victorian poet and a leading social critic。 His poetry foresees the “wasteland” of the twentieth century。 One of the most famous of his poem is Dover Beach。 It touches the major concerns of Mid-Victorian writing。 The poem by Matthew Arnold is filled with a sense of sadness, expressing the poet’s bitter disappointment over modern civilization and describing the social disorder at that time and the sincere faith that people had gradually got lost through the figurative language and his affection involvement and exposed that the English people was on the verge of collapse by different images of sea in combination with the use of symbolism。 Comparing the past society with the present, the author pointed out that the people’s mentality had been back to the non-religious age when they lived in the age without love but terror’s fight which resulted in being contradictory in their inner minds。 Then the poet finally turns to love as the saving emotion in the poem 。

2。 Literature Review

Matthew Arnold is a great Victorian poet, his many literary works have been studied in recent years。 In abroad, different people, different views。 To Carlyle, for example, In the civilization of sorrow severely criticized that the British people addicted in liberalism phenomenon at that time。 He holds that the current Britain faces two big threats, one is the free competition, for their own profit concept, its concrete manifestation is the liberalism。 Another threat is a critical worship of material and money。 Nevertheless, Arnold clearly pointed out that liberalism will let British society slide into the Abyss。 So culture should be the very means and tool to avoid that danger。 论文网