1. Poem Comparison Dover Beach
... him using an overt classical reference to Sophocles - to support his "argument", though his recollection and the use of the reference will not bear socially. His final image is a submerged allusion to Thucydides" account of the Battle of Epipolae (413BC) Again, knowledge of the reference is not particularly helpful. Most readers read the image as depicting Victorian society? "Dover Beach", then ... ...
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