The first half of Matthew Arnold’s brooding, poem Dover Beach saw him watch the sea meet “the moon-blanch’d land” and hear the roar of pebbles pushed to and fro by the waves, bringing “the eternal ...
Matthew Arnold’s poem derives its essential sadness from its sense of something lost — a decent wardrobe that once clothed the world — with only companionship remaining to dress the true nakedness of ...
Matthew Arnold’s overview of the receding tide of Dover Beach and the metaphor it offers for the retreat of faith, comes from the Victorian era, but without the optimism often attached to that period.
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