The last image in Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" is a haunting image of a dark plain inhabited by clashing armies. This image is developed in the final lines of the poem:
And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night (35-37).
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