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In this excerpt from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, which 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
(A. Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.) (B. But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,) Retreating, to the breath (C. 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
(D. 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 help for pain;
(E. And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,)
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

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Greenleafable
I believe the correct answer is B. But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.
This line shows us a particular change in poet's heart - he used to think that the Sea of Faith was beautiful and mysterious, but now his opinion suddenly changed when he realized how melancholic it actually is. It suggests to us that he had a loss of faith.

Since the question asks for TWO answers (but doesn't say it here), they would be:

But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

and

And here we are as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight

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