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Read this passage from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold:
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
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;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
What connotation does the word "struggle' have that adds to the poem's
tone?
A. Anticipation
B. Sadness
C. Desperation
D. Joy

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I’m pretty sure the correct answer is D because the poem is saying to love one another and to be at peace it couldn’t be A because they author never mentions anything there waiting for or wanting

The connotation that the word ''struggle'' have that adds to the tone of the poem is that the desperation.

Option C is correct.

What is the connotation?

The connotation is referring to the emotion that invokes for an individual with its actual meaning.

According to provided passage, the tone of the poem that adds to the struggle word being used by the author indicates the connotation of desperation.  

Therefore, the word written in option C is correct.

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