"Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born" ?
The question asks to identify the Matthew Arnold poem containing the lines expressing a specific dilemma.
The famous lines, "Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born", are found in Matthew Arnold's poem "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse".
These lines encapsulate the core theme of the poem, which reflects Arnold's sense of spiritual and intellectual uncertainty during the Victorian era. He felt caught between the perceived stability and faith of the past (the "dead" world of traditional religion and values) and the nascent, uncertain, and spiritually unfulfilling modern world (the "powerless to be born" world of scientific rationalism and secularism).
Therefore, "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" is the correct source for the quoted lines expressing this profound dilemma.
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