What is summary of Poem The Village School Master
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"The village schoolmaster'' poem is actually the experience of the poet's childhood. Goldsmith writes this poetry and he is against the idea of materialistic things. He says that people nowadays don't respect teachers in village schools. Everyone is fantasized about urban life and they don't consider them worth it.
Although teachers are national heroes, whether they are from the village or from the city. So, we should respect them in every aspect, as they carry a lot of information that we can't even think about. In the end he is expressing his sorrow by saying that we are no more with our teachers and we miss them a lot.
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Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Village Schoolmaster” depicts the memory of an educated schoolmaster who occupies a position of reverence and awe in a rural village.
The poem was written as part of a larger work, The Deserted Village, in which Goldsmith describes an imaginary ideal village called Auburn, a composite of several villages Goldsmith had himself observed. Returning to the village after many years, now in its decline, the narrator remembers the village as it had once been, idealised through the lens of time and memory.
The poem was written as part of a larger work, The Deserted Village, in which Goldsmith describes an imaginary ideal village called Auburn, a composite of several villages Goldsmith had himself observed. Returning to the village after many years, now in its decline, the narrator remembers the village as it had once been, idealised through the lens of time and memory. Goldsmith’s portrait of the schoolmaster is written from a position of nostalgia, and the affectionate and humorous portrait of the schoolmaster reflects a respected figure from an idealised past. Through a humorous and reflective portrait of the archetypical village schoolmaster as well as through a stylised poetic form, Goldsmith expresses a concern for the uncertain future of the country life in a time of growing commerce and industry.
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Goldsmith’s belief in the superiority of the rural life finds expression in poetic style as well as subject. The poem’s structure is in rhyming pentameter couplets, a form featured prominently in the eighteenth century’s heroic poems. The heroic couplet, used by poetic giants from Chaucer to Dryden, evokes a history of an English poetic tradition and contributes to a nostalgia for the past which Goldsmith expresses in his portrait of the schoolmaster.
The language is simple and far from the lofty language expected of the heroic couplet; although Goldsmith uses an elevated diction, employing poetically conventionally words such as “rustics” in place of the more colloquial “peasant” or “clodhopper”. Word order is inverted to maintain the rhythm and rhyme scheme in ‘Well had the boding tremblers learn’d the trace’ and ‘Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage’ (7, 17), effectively elevating the verse from its common subject and in the process elevating the image of the schoolmaster himself from a country teacher to an important and respected figure in provincial life.
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