The sea is calm to-night", for 10 points, identify this poem in which "ignorant armies clash by night" on a "darkling plain", a work of Matthew Arnold.
W.B. Yeats's "The Nineteenth Century and After" was a direct response to this poem. In its final stanza, its speaker imagines the world as "a land of dreams, / So various, so beautiful, so new", while its opening stanza describes how certain events "Begin, and cease, and then again begin / With tremulous cadence slow". Its speaker notes that he now hears only the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" of the former "Sea of Faith", and remembers how "Sophocles long ago" heard that same sound "on the Aegean". Opening "The sea is calm to-night", for 10 points, identify this poem in which "ignorant armies clash by night" on a "darkling plain", a work of Matthew Arnold.
W.B. Yeats's "The Nineteenth Century and After" was a direct response to this poem.
“{Dover Beach}” [since {I'm nice}, prompt on “{Matthew Arnold}” if {someone buzzes} before “{poem}”]