![]() The most evocative (and in its way, saddest) lines ever written, right "Where ignorant armies clash by night" has got to be one of Philospophy implied by the poem, I can't help being enchanted by its 'Dover Beach', however, are not although I disagree with the Work is too overtly didactic for my taste. To tell the truth, Arnold isn't one of my favourite poets - much of his like most 'classic poems', 'Dover Beach' has its share of redeeming Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, To one another! for the world which seems Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.Ĭome to the window, sweet is the night-air! Gleams and is gone the cliffs of England stand, Upon the straits - on the French coast the light ![]() ( Poem #89) Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night, ![]()
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