Check your understanding 1. Who is speaking in the poem?
2. What is the speaker asking for?
3. To whom is the plea addressed?
4. Why do you think the plea is made?
5. What can be the affairs that are referred to by the speaker?
6. Enumerate the things colonizers do to the people as mentioned in the poem

THE POEM IS ALL ABOUT AFRICA'S PLEA (•‿•)​

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. 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 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.

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?

What exaggeration about him smiley does the narrator of the notorious jumping frog of calveras county make