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Explain with reference to the context.And still they gaz’d, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. |
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Answer» The above lines are taken from the poem ‘The Village School Master’ written by Oliver Goldsmith. Concluding his account of the village school master, Goldsmith says that the school master’s scholarship was a matter of great wonder to all people of the village. The master could read and write and do sums in arithmetic. He could predict the weather and measure land. He had a great skill in argument. He would go on arguing even after he was defeated in an argument. The simple villagers were very much impressed by all this. They wondered how the man could carry so much knowledge in his small head. The school master was in truth not a great scholar as people thought him to be. But by making him appear to be a scholar in the estimation of the villagers, Goldsmith secures a special effect of humour. This is the remarkable thing about the portrait. |
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