For 10 points, identify this Matthew Arnold poem about an Oxford student joining a group of travelling nomads.
This poem advises "plunge deeper in the bowering wood Â… as Dido did with gesture stern from her false friend's approach in Hades turn" in order to deal with "this strange disease of modern life." Written as a series of twenty-five ten-line stanzas, it ends with the "young light-hearted Masters of the waves" travelling over "blue Midland watersÂ… betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily." The speakers of this poem claim their "insight never has borne fruit in deeds," and they tell the addressee (*) "thou waitest for the spark from heaven." Beginning in the style of a pastoral by declaring "Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill," this poem is prefaced with a note about Joseph Glanville's The Vanity of Dogmatizing, which is the inspiration for this work. For 10 points, identify this Matthew Arnold poem about an Oxford student joining a group of travelling nomads.
This poem advises "plunge deeper in the bowering wood Â… as Dido did with gesture stern from her false friend's approach in Hades turn" in order to deal with "this strange disease of modern life."
"The Scholar-Gipsy"