《多佛海滩》与维多利亚时代

马修·阿诺德是维多利亚时期一个非常重要的诗人,在其传世诗作《多佛海滩》中,他以敏锐的洞察力和精炼的语言向读者描绘了一个伟大时代的全景图。诗人用一首小诗就概括了维多利亚时代的繁华以及繁华背后的危机,并向读者预言了一个可怕的"荒原"般的人类的未来。这首诗所描写的就是诗人心中的维多利亚时代。

Matthew Arnold was a very important Victorian poet in the English literary history, In his representative poem Dover Beach, Arnold described a comprehensive picture of a great age with his sharp insight and concise verse lines. He summed up the prosperity of the Victorian Age and the crisis beneath it in a single poem, and predicted a horrible wasteland-like future for mankind. What described in this poem is the real Victorian society in the poet＇s eyes.