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
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}”