Themes
Goldsmith prefers this type of economy.
What is the Old Agrarian Economy?
The Deserted Village is this type of poem.
What is a heroic poem?
I was King when this was written.
Who is King George III?
The literary devices used in this writing.
What is Assonance, Alliteration, and Rhyme?
Goldsmith prefers this type of lifestyle.
What is the rural life?
This poem uses this literary device to depict the village.
What is metaphor?
These 2 act where established in 1764 and 1765.
What is the Sugar Act and Stamp Act?
Goldsmith writes similarly in The Deserted Village to this piece of work by a popular classic writer.
What is Virgil's Georgic?
Goldsmith compares beauty to the village in this way.
Beauty does not last, neither does a "land abandoned for pleasure".
What does Goldsmith refer the word train in this poem to?
(Refer to lines 17-18, 63-64)
A Set or a class or a persons
The religious revival led to this church being founded in industrial cities.
What is the Methodist church?
The lyricism of the poem can be described as:
Sweet, simple, sentimental
According to the poem, how do men decay?
Rich men: they don't do anything.
Poor poor: their reliance on the rich, who do nothing.
True or False: Luxury is used to depict the village.
False
This revolution was beginning to take shape when the piece was written.
What is the American Revolution?
The deserted village utilizes this type of poem, which describes and often praises a landscape.
What is a topographical or loco-descriptive poem?
True or False: Based off of the story, the narrator did not want to come to the village to retire.
False
Horrid shore, a place full of wild animals and savage men; filled with hardship and immorality.
What year was this poem published?
What is 1770?
Goldsmiths lyricism emphasizes the traditional values which ________ represents, and _________ threatens.
Auburn; luxury