The user the did not post the excerpt. The excerpt is given below: <span>The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath.
The simile 'a bright girdle' as used in this excerpt SUGGESTS THE GREATNESS OF AN ERA WHEN ENGLAND WAS A WORLD POWER AND COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. The poem 'Dover Beach is the best known poem of Mathew Arnold, he wrote the poem in 1851 during his visit to the south coast of England, where the cliffs of Dover was located. </span>