This poem's persona calls upon his addressee to "Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" However, his mournful tone is exemplified by the "grating roar/Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling . . . With tremulous cadence slow." This eternal note of sadness, he says, was heard by Sophocl
This poem's persona calls upon his addressee to "Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" However, his mournful tone is exemplified by the "grating roar/Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling . . . With tremulous cadence slow." This eternal note of sadness, he says, was heard by Sophocles on the Aegean. Closing with the image of the lovers standing on a "darkling plain . . . Where ignorant armies clash by night," is, for 10 points, what Matthew Arnold poem set at a seaside?
This poem's persona calls upon his addressee to "Come to the window, sweet is the night air!"
“{Dover Beach}”