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The poem Dover Beach is written by Matthew Arnold. There are lines that relate to today's world in the poem. One might not see how unless you stop to analyze it. If we didn’t stop to analyze, we might not understand what we’re reading. Understanding what your reading is important because if you don’t understand what your reading, you’re wasting time.
Lines 21-23 of the poem say “The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore / Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.” I think Arnold is saying faith is like the sea. When it comes to some things we have a lot of faith, just like how there is a lot of seas around the world, but it eventually stops somewhere. Like we have faith in people

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