Question

give the central idea of poem the scholar

Answer 1

In the poem the poet is remembering his friends and elders who has gone away. He is remembering all his days and moments with his never - failing friends. Although, today they are not with him but he feels that they are around him and he is finding their casual eyes. He is describing about how his elders helped him in trouble. They were his well wishers with whom h lived along under their guidance. His hopes are with dead and soon he will also with his elders. His name also will be remembered by his youngsters.

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Answer 2

Robert Southey had great interest in books. He made his  own library which  had   a of  books. 'The Scholar' in one  of  the shorter pieces of  Robert Southey on which the  poet's fame largely rests today. In the  poem, the poet assumes the personality of  a  scholar and in that capacity gives an account of a scholar's like  and  dislikes, aspirations and  dreams. The entire life of the  scholar is  spent in reading books, usually by  the writers of the past. Since books cannot be separated from their authors, the  scholar , in  a sense, lives in  the  company of the dead writers 'the mighty minds of  old'. The classics, in which the  scholar is engrossed all the time, are  his  true companions and  he shares his  joy and  sorrow with them. Therefore, the  scholar is  naturally indebted to those  books for those  books for  their help in the  understanding  of  the  world and  in his  cultivation of  sensibility. He  loves the  virtues of the authors and  condemns their vices and  learns a  lot from their examples. He  hopes  that he  would travel till enternity with those  writers and  leave his  name behind, which is  posterity would love  to cherish.