<u>Answer</u>:
- 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,"
<u>Prompt</u>:
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
<u>[Option #1] Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.</u>
<u>[Option #2] But now I only hear</u>
<u>Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,</u>
Retreating, to the breath
<u>[Option #3] Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear</u>
And [censored] shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
<u>[Option #4] To lie before us like a land of dreams,</u>
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
<u>[Option #5] And we are here as on a darkling plain</u>
<u>Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,</u>
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
<u>Commentary</u>: I hope that this helps you. The Lord bless you and keep you, my friend. Shalom
