Question

In Vanishing Village T.H Thomas yearns for a revival of the colourful life and activity of the ideal Greek village after the vision of Plato?

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Summary

This poem presents a dreadful picture of a deserted village. It seems to be a haunted village. It has scarcely a street and a few houses. Its inhabitants have left it. Here the poet says that people are migrating. That is why; the villages in the modern age have become empty and deserted. In the village, there is only one shop and hotel. The houses are also in bad shape. The streets of the village have disappeared. There is us one path in the village which leads nowhere. The most tragic thing is that path leads to the top of the sort hill. The hill is eaten away by the long erosion of green tide.

The village presents a sad picture in the poem. It suggests the negation of life the deserted village is the symbol of the waste and barrenness of modern life. As villages are vanishing similarly healthy life is destroying day by day. The death overpowered the death. The poet feels very sad about this change.

The poet continues to presents a sad picture in all poems. He says that even the black dog, which once tried to cracking his fleas, has also died. There is hope. There a girl who crosses from door to door and in this way connects the village with life and nature.

The presence of the girl in the village is a symbol of hope. The deserted village is not going to disappear at all. Perhaps, this is the central theme of the poem. . But the basic unit of civilization and culture is still a village. A village still remains the most powerful nit of life in the world. It has to play a meaningful role in the social evolution explained by the great thinker Plato.

The poet yearns for a revival of the previous colorful life and activity of the ideal Greek village. He mourns on vanishing village. He is wistful about the revival of the village. The tone of the poet is sad wistful and sometimes witty. The frozen life of the village is reflected in the slow movement of the lines.

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