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@article{191969,
        author = {Dr. Panchshiela Mahale},
        title = {The Triumph of Man-Made Values in Relation to The Loss Of Natural Values in The Poem The Forsaken Merman By Matthew Arnold},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {8670-8672},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=191969},
        abstract = {Industrial Revolution has remained one of the significant revolutions in the history of world, paving way for great many radical changes in the days to come. With the advent and progression of the industrialization of the nation, the English Victorian age was rife with the struggle to maintain the status quo of established ideologies and the alternate new, scientific outlook of dealing with life at large. The Poem The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold is representative of this struggle during the Victorian period in English lives. The research paper analyses the depiction of these two contradictory viewpoints through the two diverse worlds presented in the poem in the framework of a narrative of love forsaken. 
The Forsaken Merman is a poem based on the love between two beings, a human mortal and a merman, representing diverse worlds. The Merman belongs to the world of nature i.e. the world of sea while the lady love has her innate home in the world of land i.e. the earth, the human world. One is a natural world and the other is a man dominated world. Matthew Arnold depicts the value systems of both of these worlds bringing out the differences in these set of values. Through the poem, he has criticized the social and religious belief systems that dominated the human world and controlled the individuals into following the set norms of the times. The paper analyses the diverse viewpoints depicted through the poem and brings out the differences between the values represented by Man-made society and Nature.},
        keywords = {Society, Nature, Love, Contradictory viewpoints, Science, Religion.},
        month = {January},
        }