The world hath neither joy nor love nor light for the speaker even though the sea is calm tonight.
Sophocles is reminded of human misery in the second stanza of this poem when he hears the eternal note of sadness on the Aegean. The world hath neither joy nor love nor light for the speaker even though the sea is calm tonight. The speaker and his love are on a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night in, for 10 points, what poem which takes place on the cliffs of England, overlooking the French coast, a poem by Matthew Arnold.
Sophocles is reminded of human misery in the second stanza of this poem when he hears the eternal note of sadness on the Aegean.
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