In the nineteenth century, under the impacts of science and industrialization, the world disintegrated. Everything fragmented into pieces, with man lost in the middle, trying to turn to each broken piece separately yet unable to grasp them all at once. Facing this disintegration, man was overwhelmed by afflicting problems: the loss of Christian faith, the shock at the rapid growth of technology and urbanization, and, consequently, the pressure of loneliness and uncertainty of direction. Arnold shared all these problems. He felt acutely the collapse of Christian faith from the assaults of science, literal interpretations of the Bible, and utilitarianism. Pervading his poems was a profound sense of isolation and loss. The bonds between man and God, between man and nature, and even between man and man were completely shattered. What's worse, the old social system, with its sense of order and communion, was equally uprooted by industrialization and urbanization, which brought about instead an impersonal and indifferent society. Living in such an adverse milieu，Arnold tried to find a saving and working creed not only for himself but also for his contemporaries. Seeing his efforts, many readers and critics, such as Douglas Bush and Pauli Baum, approach Arnold in a reverential way. They regard him as a spokesman of the highly intellectual—a sage and physician of his age—and expect him to prescribe some remedies for the malaises of his time. Among the remedies they have discovered in his poems, love and religion are two of the most frequently discussed. But, is Arnold really confident of the power of love and religion? What is his attitude toward them? Indeed in many of his poems he tries to assert the significance and -value of love and religion in confrontation with isolation and disintegration; however, behind his assertive and sagacious mask there exist anxieties and uncertainties, which challenge the conventional view that love and religion can comfort and sustain man in an age of isolation and disintegration. These anxieties and uncertainties about love and religion are what I will tackle in what follows.