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Matthew Arnold Comparison

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For essay 2 I will be synthesizing “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold and “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten. I chose these two pieces because they in a way present the same theme of being alone but are very different in the way it is expressed. In “Dover Beach” Arnold talks about being alone with his true love and making sure that they stay true and focuses on all of the things the world does not offer for them. In “Fight Song” Platten expresses her loneliness by talking about losing friends, and feeling depressed but she still has a lot of fight left in her meaning that she won’t give up and will keep fighting. The content is not the only thing that is so different about these two pieces but also the way it is formatted. In “Dover Beach” Arnold

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