Question

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith?

Answer 1

Answer:

• Option #2: "But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,"
• Option #5: "And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,"

Prompt:

Select the correct text in the passage.

In this excerpt from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith?

The Sea of Faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore

[Option #1] Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

[Option #2] But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

[Option #3] Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And [censored] shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

[Option #4] To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

[Option #5] And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Commentary: I hope that this helps you. The Lord bless you and keep you, my friend. Shalom