Wednesday, February 18, 2009

By the sea (again) ...

... `The Eternal Note of Sadness'.

"Dover Beach" is routinely cited for its comment regarding faith, but what has always struck me about the poem is how uncannily prophetic of the Great War the last two lines - "Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, /Where ignorant armies clash by night" - seem.

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