"The Secret of Art"and Culture:Matthew Arnold's Utopian Ideal in The Scholar Gipsy
As a social critics,cultural critics,and poet,Arnold depicts his Utopian ideal in The Schol-ar Gipsy by means of"the secret of art".Gipsy Scholar,an object of the literary imagination,has dual i-dentity of the Oxford scholar and the gipsy,reflecting the scholar's concerns about the ethical dilemma of declining social beliefs and weakening morality and his ideal of helping the people with the gypsies'"secret of art".This"secret of art"is in line with Arnold's thoughts to ameliorate the world through culture,both of which are aimed at building a Utopian society.
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