...Hardy's, shelter 102 the bay and in their vast impenetrability seem to take on a presence of their own: "The sea is calm tonight. / The tide is full, the...stand, / Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay." The reader discovers that the description of beauty in the landscape is an illusion as the scene changes...

...are still people of the planet, with all its original directions waiting in our being. — -John Hay The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits . . . For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams. — Matthew Arnold We simply...

...sich in der Art auszudrücken, wie "out" in Zeile 5 sogleich nach "vast" den Ton erhält (4-5): "... the cliffs of England stand, / Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay". Das eintönige Brechen der Wellen hat sein rhythmisches Abbild in dem vergleichsweise regelmäßigen...

...that Classicism and Christian faith are no longer in accord with human understanding and experience: The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon...night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land. Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw...

...was to hold up a vision of excellence and fend off the forces that erode civilization. Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon...the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, Listen! you...

...confidence, attempting the seductive, varied tone of a storyteller entrancing a child, hegins again. "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon...fair upon the straits — on the French coast the lighr gleams and is gone . . ." Henry missed first time the mention of the cliffs of England "glimmering...

..."Channels" may be a veiled reference to the English Channel, the implied backdrop to Arnold's poem ("On the French coast the light/ Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand"). But otherwise Auden's opening lines are much more optimistic than Arnold's; the poem, after all, takes...

...touchstone. Arnold turned forty-five in 1867, the year the poem first appeared in print. Here it is: The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon...the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, Listen! you...

...touchstone. Arnold turned forty- five in 1867, the year the poem first appeared in print. Here it is: The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon...the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land, Listen! you...

...passion and the emotion without this other work. It doesn't come separate. It's not isolated. Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon...the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! You...