Question

A character at one of these places plays the same three notes on a reed while being confronted by a man who had previously attacked him. An action taken at one of these locations is compared to “knocking four quick (15[1])times on the door of unhappiness.” In a poem titled for one of these locations, the speaker tells the addressee to “come to the window.” At one of these places, the likely pimp (10[1])(*) Raymond’s arm is slashed by a knife. A poem set at one of these locations describes a place “swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight.”The heat of the sun at one of these locations supposedly causes (10[1])Mersault (10[1])to shoot an Arab in The Stranger. (10[2])For 10 points, “ignorant armies clash at night” at what type of location in Dover in a poem by Matthew Arnold? ■END■

ANSWER: a beach [or “Dover Beach”; prompt on the sea or a seashore]
<Literature - European Literature>
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Nat KuNYU BPrinceton11810

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