The Village Schoolmaster

The liquidation Schoolmaster

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way
With blossomd furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his mansion, skilld to rule,
The village master taught his little school;
A man severe he was, and stern to view,
I knew him well, and every(prenominal) truant knew;
Well had the boding tremblers learnd to trace
The days disasters in his aurora face;
Full well they laughd with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for numerous a joke had he:
Full well the brisk whisper, circling round,
Conveyd the dismal tidings when he frownd:
Yet he was grade; or if severe in aught,
The love he poor fish to learning was in fault.
The village all declard how much he knew;
Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Lands he could measure, price and tides presage,
And een the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the person ownd his skill,
For een though vanquishd he could argue still;
While words of wise(p) length and thundring sound
Amazed the gazing rustics rangd around;
And still they gazd and still the venerate grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
But past is all his fame. The very spot
Where many a time he triumphd is forgot.





-- Oliver Goldsmith

Now, the summary is as follows:

This is an extract from a longer poem by Oliver Goldsmith called The Deserted Village, one of the best known poems of the eighteenth century. To some uttermost this passage, the portrait of an agreeable village school-teacher, needs to be launch in context.

The village Goldsmith is writing about he calls Auburn: it probably wasnt a single real village, exactly was an imaginary ideal one, created nonetheless from villages he has observed. The village he imagined is now deserted because all the people project emigrated, the principal(prenominal) reason being the enclosure or (as we would now say) privatization of their destroy by rich people. There was a lot of bolt down in eighteenth-century England that was either owned in common, or which didnt have clear...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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