In one line from this poem, the speaker describes the illusion of a world that appears "so various, so beautiful, so new".
In one line from this poem, the speaker describes the illusion of a world that appears "so various, so beautiful, so new". Earlier he had described how an entity that used to be "full" and "like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd" has receded to the "naked shingles of the world". The speaker instructs the listener to "hear the grating roar / of pebbles, which the waves draw back and fling", and notes that the "turbid ebb and flow / of human misery" is something that "Sophocles long ago / heard" on the Aegean. Beginning with the line "The sea is calm tonight", this is, for 10 points, what poem delivered by a man to his lover on the titular shore, by Matthew Arnold?
In one line from this poem, the speaker describes the illusion of a world that appears "so various, so beautiful, so new".
"Dover Beach"