But, his person could not abandon all values of the indoctrinated traditional culture: his roots drew deeper than his intellectualism. His poetry exhibited the complexities of the “modern consciousness”-religious skepticism, societal animosity, and melancholy loneliness for a few. Arnold endowed upon himself the responsibility of being a stabilizing rational force, and in his position as a mediator, served as a progressive and frustrating protagonist to all his contemporaries. The academic style was being challenged by non-institutional radicals, religious conservatism by transcendentalists, and so on. The 19 th century was a revolutionary time for the strong holdings of poetry. However, the breadth of his scope and influence is so immersing in proceeding poetry that one is merely looking for ripples in an ocean of water.
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