Which work is a poem by Matthew Arnold?

• A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• B. The People, Yes!
• C. Everyday Use
• D. Dover Beach

Answer: (D)

The main idea here is recognizing which work is by Matthew Arnold and belongs to his Victorian-era lyric poetry. Dover Beach is a lyric poem by Matthew Arnold, first published in 1867, renowned for its sea imagery and meditation on faith’s erosion in a secular age. It uses the shoreline setting to explore doubt and the fragility of belief, culminating in a personal plea to be true to one another. This makes it distinct from the other options: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Romantic narrative poem about a sailor’s guilt; Everyday Use is a short story by Alice Walker; The People, Yes! is a long poem by Carl Sandburg celebrating democracy. So Dover Beach is the work by Matthew Arnold.