Which stanza best expresses the societal changes that occurred during the Victorian Age as they relate to the tone of “Dover Beach”?
“ . . . on the French coast the light/Gleams and is gone;”
“The Sea of Faith/Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore”
“But now I only hear/Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,”
“...for the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams/…Hath neither joy, nor love, nor light.”