In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. ... 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. ... But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee"...

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• Grade Level: High School

The king goes across the sea on a ship, and a storm arises and drowns all aboard. ... Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. ... In her dream, Alcyone sees Seys at the foot of her bed, and he tells her that he has died and that she must find his body by the sea and bury it. ... The knight then begins a tirade against  Fortune, who turns her wheel at a whim, making him, a man she has favored before, into a miserable wretch. ... Socrates taught that the philosophical man should be above the vagaries of Fortune. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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