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Oliver GoldsmithThe central idea of the poem is that the villagers respect the schoolmaster for his education. The poem describes a small village school. Most of the residents in the village do not have much...
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Oliver GoldsmithThe most remarkable thing about the village schoolmaster is the amount of knowledge he has. He is very smart. The author lets us know this by describing all the things he can do: The village all...
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Oliver GoldsmithIrony exists when what is expected and what occurs are in conflict with each other. As a literary device and a figure of speech, it highlights inconsistencies and is intended to draw attention,...
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Jonathan SwiftBoth of these famous authors worked principally in the 18th century, and both are famed for their satire and their incredibly comic writings. The difference between them, arguably, lies in two...
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Oliver GoldsmithSwift writes about society's corruption from a characters point of view while Goldsmith looks at it as a whole. Goldsmith also makes his writings more humerous and light hearted. Also, Swift makes...
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Oliver Goldsmith"The Village Schoolmaster" is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith that reflects an earlier period in British life before the start of the Industrial Revolution. Its main theme is one of nostalgia for...
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Oliver GoldsmithGoldsmith in the poem levels himself to a child-student and begins to wonder on the capacity of a village teacher .A teacher in the nursery and the primary school appears to a student most awesome...
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Oliver GoldsmithThe poem is an excerpt from a longer poem by Goldsmith called "The Deserted Village" and conveys the speaker's sentiments about a teacher. The word "village" in the title clearly suggests that the...
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Oliver GoldsmithOnomatopoeia is defined as words that are used to imitate sounds they describe. There are two usages of onomatopoeia. One is fairly easy to recognize. It is easily illustrated by Batman's "Biff!...
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Oliver GoldsmithIn "The Village Schoolmaster," an ironic admirer describes the schoolmaster's school as being beyond a "straggling" fence, or a fence that can't keep up--can't keep upright, that is. This means...
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Oliver Goldsmith"If" is probably Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem (and one of my favorites), and it serves a didactic purpose of instructing a person on the various steps of becoming a good man. The first stanza...
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Oliver GoldsmithWrite a summary on the poem "The village schoolmaster""the village schoolmaster" by Oliver GoldsmithI would say you can read this poem in two ways. You can read it as praise of the teacher, or you can read it as a poem about how life is fleeting and so is fame (sort of like "Ozymandias." In the...
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Oliver GoldsmithDescribe the characteristics of the village schoolmaster and how the students and villagers react...The Village School master was a man who could easily be identified as an "old stone face", or a man with a strong gaze and expression that inspired the respect and seriousness in students. A man...
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Oliver GoldsmithThe poem: The Village Schoolmaster Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the wayWith blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,The village master taught his...
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Oliver GoldsmithOliver Glodsmith's poem The Village Schoolmaster should be read in tandem with much bigger and more substantial work Deserted Village, which is all about the poet's memory of his childhood village...
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Oliver GoldsmithHere's the poem: Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the wayWith blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,The village master taught his little school;A man...
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Oliver GoldsmithWhat do you think the furze is described as the 'unprofitably gay' in Village School Master?It is...The description of the furze being 'unprofitably gay' occurs in the very beginning, the second line of Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Village Schoolmaster. It is a striking example of personification,...
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Oliver GoldsmithBeside a broken down fence and some yellow furze is the schoolhouse where the master taught. The school was noisy and small but the master was knowledgeable and competent. He could also be stern...
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Oliver GoldsmithIn "The Village Schoolmaster," Oliver Goldsmith (c.1728-1774) presents a vivid picture of a certain schoolmaster. With each line, the reader peels away the layers of the schoolmaster's identity....