Some critics read this poem's last line as a reference to Thucydides' description of the Battle of Epipolae when soldiers fighting in the dark couldn't identify the enemy. Previously the speaker notes the "tremulous cadence slow" of the waves in the title location, which bring in the "eternal note of sadness." The speaker t
Some critics read this poem's last line as a reference to Thucydides' description of the Battle of Epipolae when soldiers fighting in the dark couldn't identify the enemy. Previously the speaker notes the "tremulous cadence slow" of the waves in the title location, which bring in the "eternal note of sadness." The speaker then complains that the world "hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light," so he and his love should "be/True to one another." FTP what is this poem set where "ignorant armies clash by night," the best-known poem by Matthew Arnold?
Some critics read this poem's last line as a reference to Thucydides' description of the Battle of Epipolae when soldiers fighting in the dark couldn't identify the enemy.
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