For 10 points, name this poem which compares life to "a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight," written by Matthew Arnold.
One response to this poem is a quatrain which reads, "Though the great song return no more there's keen delight in what we have: the rattle of pebbles on the shore under the receding wave." The title character of another response to this poem thinks about "what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck" and says "one or two unprintable things" because she is angry at being "addressed as a sort of mournful cosmic last resort" by the author of this poem while they are standing "with the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them." This poem is read to Mildred by Guy Montag to convince her of the worth of literature in Fahrenheit 451, and it is parodied in an Anthony Hecht poem about a "bitch." For 10 points, name this poem which compares life to "a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight," written by Matthew Arnold.
One response to this poem is a quatrain which reads, "Though the great song return no more there's keen delight in what we have: the rattle of pebbles on the shore under the receding wave.
"Dover Beach"