What do you think of this excerpt from the poem "Dover Beach"?

Question

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
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.
By Matthew Arnold (1822-88).

Answer 1

Seems like he can see what so many others are blind to.

2 thumbs up!!

Answer 2

i got the faint hint of something , but overall it makes no sense to me. lol it would be awesome if he was talking about his missing marble.