Matthew Arnold uses diction and imagery to produce the themes of alienation and self-discovery in the poems: "Dover Beach" and "The Buried Life ". Beach” is about a man's attitude towards life. Arnold uses diction to show his innermost feelings and thoughts. In “Dover Beach” he states that “the sea is calm tonight, the tide is full, the moon lies fair on the sound.” These lines show a sense of clarification until he states that he has lost faith by saying "and here we are as if on a dark plain swept by confused alarms of fight and flight." These lines present the idea of ​​him not knowing why he is on this earth. His negative thoughts affect his ability to be happy, for example when he says “Ah, love, let's be faithful to each other! for the world that seems to lie before us like a land of dreams…” It begins on a positive note of being faithful to each other, but then cuts off with the artificiality of the world. Arnold also uses diction to describe the negative qualities of the world by saying "It has indeed neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certainty, nor peace, nor help for pain...". Arnold uses imagery in the first stanza when he looks at the sea and the moon. This helps the reader imagine moonlit water and listen to the sound of crashing waves. Starting from a very peaceful scene, we fall asleep comparing the crashing of the waves to the loss of faith that our generations have experienced. The end of the poem leaves the reader wondering: If the world isn't here for us, who is? The world is full of different types of people and different stories to share, but for some reason we don't share them with each other. We keep all our emotions and stories within our buried life while we put on a play… in the center of the paper… y is shown at the bottom of the second page “A man becomes aware of the flow of his life, and hears its sinuous murmur; and sees the meadows where it slides, the sun, the breeze. The feeling of knowing where your life is going is compared to a sunny day in the meadows and feeling the breeze. The feeling of not knowing what could change at any moment is shown on the last page "And then he thinks he knows the hills where his life rose, and the sea where he goes." The sea never ends and this is the comparison with life. Life is constantly changing and moving forward. Compared to a sea that changes shape, moves the water from its original place and presents obstacles. If we don't stop worrying about the future and progressing as much as possible, we will never know what our original state of mind was. We will never be able to remember past experiences and truly appreciate them.