Containing the famous vision of an ebbing "Sea of Faith" in a description of the moonlit French coast and the cliffs of England, this is, FTP, what poem by Matthew Arnold?
The speaker in this poem asserts that the "flow of human misery" was brought into the mind of Sophocles long ago when he heard on the Aegean the "grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, at their return, up the high strand." In the final stanza, the speaker asks that he and his lover be true to one another, for the seemingly rosy world "hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain." Containing the famous vision of an ebbing "Sea of Faith" in a description of the moonlit French coast and the cliffs of England, this is, FTP, what poem by Matthew Arnold?
The speaker in this poem asserts that the "flow of human misery" was brought into the mind of Sophocles long ago when he heard on the Aegean the "grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, at their return, up the high strand.
Dover Beach