The correct option is D). A girdle.
"Dover Beach" is the most famous and celebrated poem that is written by Matthew Arnold. He was a writer and educator of the Victorian era. “Dover Beach” is a dramatic poem in which, the poet expresses his frustration and hopelessness of the modern chaotic world.
The poem begins with a straightforward description of nature and the speaker in the poem is calling his lovely one to see the beautiful sea and to hear the sound of the waves. He also expresses that the situation is where there is “neither joy, nor love nor peace, nor help for pain.
Metaphor that has been used in the line is that “The sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore“ and there’s a Simile in the line “Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled".
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