"Dover Beach" Activities

Della Cummings March 21, 2008

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Activities:

Suppose that the poem was written in the present day instead of the Vicotiran Era. If this was so, how would it change the meaning and what possible meanings could be added?

How does the poem, in its warning against the loss of religion from the world, differ from the new ideas of the Victorian Era?