deal with issues of psychological isolation, and he focused a lot on the dwindling faith of his time period, even though he himself had doubts about religion. Arnold is sometimes considered the bridge between Romanticism and Modernism; he used symbolic landscapes characteristic of the Romantic Era, but he was skeptical and pessimistic, qualities more associated with Modernist poetry. His work is more reflective than emotional — he considered poetry to be a "criticism of life" rich in philosophy. Arnold was also a proponent of the idea that happiness comes from within, and that we should seek goodness within ourselves and accept external factors that are thrown at us. He believed that we would inherit eternal bliss one day.