Hecht's "The Dover Bitch" interpenetrates the poetic intent of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach." Arnold makes a project of articulating a crisis of faith, though his immediate object of address is his lover; Hecht turns that project on its head, articulating a highly personal experience of the world, with both world and lover incidental to the poet's response. In other words, Arnold takes the universe as a manifest subject, and Hecht parodies that by focusing on the poor dear who
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