Still I cannot help but wonder if any FReepers have any sort of insight to Matthew Arnold's work titled the “Dover Beach” and later spoofed by Anthony Hecht in his work “The Dover Bitch.”
One about war and separation, the other mocking life in general it seems to me.
In my very first English Course in College, I was introduced to these works. Now more than 30 years following, I reflect on them occasionally.
Point is, Christine O'Donnell out of Dover, Delaware is being maligned left and right.
No other poem comes to mind more easily than the first that I had to scrutinize so long ago.
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