Word choice, denotation and connotation
Word choice refers to the poet's poetic diction. In ‘Dover Beach', Matthew Arnold uses formal diction. He chose his words carefully. When he says that the world does not give us ‘love', he means that the world lacks imagination and can know very little about time past, which is crystallized in ancient literature like a leaf in amber, knowledge of which is an essential precondition for love. He does not mean that love does not exist, but that it comes only from a partner who, unlike the world can share the exquisite perception and resolution such as he describes in ‘Dover Beach'.
For the word choice of his work, the repetition of ‘neither' and ‘nor' in this stanza produces a series of denials, for ‘neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain (line 33 -34). If none of these basic human values exist, it raises the question of what remains at all. His usage of these words provides us with a very......

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Title: Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
Approximate Word Count: 422
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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