Read this section from Dover Beach to analyze denotation and connotation and answer the follow-up questions.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Which answer best sums up the tone (negative or positive) of the words and main message of the poem’s conclusion?

Question 3 options:

A)

Positive: True love can overcome the problems in the world.


B)

Positive: The beauty of nature can ease man’s misery.


C)

Negative: Nature is a destructive force.


D)

Negative: The world without faith is a frightening place.