Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Hayeswater Comments

Rating: 2.8

A region desolate and wild.
Black, chafing water: and afloat,
And lonely as a truant child
In a waste wood, a single boat:
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Matthew Arnold
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Ian Fraser 31 March 2011

Arnold is one of the most troubling of the Victorian writers because he sees a world in which he expects to find meaning and finds none. This is not merely a fine piece of landscape poetry but a restless existentialist image.

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