Dover Beach Questions on And We Are Here as On a Darkling Plain Swept With Confused Alarms of Struggle and Flight, Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night

Dover Beach

The final stanza of "Dover Beach" compares the world to a land of dreams that appears beautiful and new, but is actually devoid of joy, love, light, certitude, peace, and help for pain. This stark...

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Dover Beach

The last image in Arnold's "Dover Beach" is of a "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies clash by night," symbolizing humanity's existence in a world full of conflict and confusion. This image...

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