In "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, where are the speaker and his love when the poem begins?

A. looking from a window at the white cliffs of Dover out to sea

B. looking from a carriage at an ancient battlefield in France

C. walking through a forest in the middle of England

D. lying on the sand of a beach in South Africa

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Cloe Meadows

10 September, 21:14

In "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, where are the speaker and his love when the poem begins?

A. looking from a window at the white cliffs of Dover out to sea

B. looking from a carriage at an ancient battlefield in France

C. walking through a forest in the middle of England

D. lying on the sand of a beach in South Africa

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Tori Aguirre · Answer 1

A. looking from a window at the white cliffs of Dover out to sea is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Matthew Arnold was a Victorian poet. Dover Beach is his most famous poem; he discusses several aspects of his own Christianity, and there the reader can understand where the speaker and his love are with this lines that belong to the very beginning of the poem: "The sea is calm tonight./The tide is full, the moon lies fair/Upon the straits; on the French coast the light/Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand," where he literally mentions the cliffs of Dover, which is as of today the most important ferry port in England.

Yukon · Answer 2

The correct answer is. Looking from a window at the white cliffs of dover out to sea