In the third stanza, the poet notes that he "hears the long, withdrawing roar" of the "Sea of Faith", and sees the retreat of the "night-wind" down the "naked shingles of the world."
Literary critic Buckner Trawick has noted this poem's resemblance to Arthur Hugh Clough's "The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich", although he also suggests it may be common source material in Thucydides. In the third stanza, the poet notes that he "hears the long, withdrawing roar" of the "Sea of Faith", and sees the retreat of the "night-wind" down the "naked shingles of the world." At the end, he declares "Ah, Love, let us be true, for the world Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light", and earlier, he notes that Sophocles may have had similar feelings on the Aegean. For ten points, identify this poem in which ignorant armies clash by night on a darkling plain, a work by Matthew Arnold.
Literary critic Buckner Trawick has noted this poem's resemblance to Arthur Hugh Clough's "The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich", although he also suggests it may be common source material in Thucydides.
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