In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. ... Science brought new inventions and these inventions, while doing good to humans, but also, were making them more mechanized. ... This conflict between science and religion is wonderfully depicted in the poems of those poets who were extremely worried because of the conflict, Matthew Arnold is one of those. ... He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetr...

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