ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853) is a poem by Matthew Arnold, based on a 17th-century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill’s The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661, etc.).

Detailed explanation-2: -The poem tells the story of a poor and disillusioned Oxford student who leaves university to join a group of traveling “gipsies” (Romani people). The Scholar-Gipsy wants not only to withdraw from his studies but also to withdraw from the modern world.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Scholar stands for singleness of aim, clear faith and unconquerable hope. Arnold represents him as a symbol of steadfast constancy to an ideal The Scholar Gipsy’s aim is to learn the secret of gipsy art and give the world an account of what he had learned”.