Check my answer on a Victorian Age English Question

Which excerpt from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” most obviously symbolizes the impermanence of life?

"on the french coast, the light Gleams and is gone...

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land/ Listen!

The sea is calmtonight/The tide is full, the moon lies fair.

For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dream.

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Check my answer on a Victorian Age English Question

Which excerpt from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” most obviously symbolizes the impermanence of life?

"on the french coast, the light Gleams and is gone...

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land/ Listen!

The sea is calmtonight/The tide is full, the moon lies fair.

For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dream. <---

anonymous · Answer

I would agree because impermanence means not lasting, or not existing and a dream will fade like the world? I'm not sure but I think so.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you. I feel better knowing someone else agrees.