Poetry Binds All: Liminoid Strategies and Metapoetic Visitations of “The Scholar Gipsy”

This study considers Matthew Arnold’s “The Scholar Gipsy” within the liminal-limioid theoretical grounds touched upon by Victor Turner and Friedrich Max Müller. The body of discussion focuses on metapoetic aspect art poetry in relation to liminal-liminoid projections featured poem. main argument is that liminal poem transform into a liminoid space where essential core itself revealed as product process. figure scholar-gipsy who left Oxford hundreds years ago joined gipsy tribe pursuit greater knowledge animated means speaker’s recalling now-gipsy-scholar’s story Such summons becomes an eternal symbol kind relationship between speaker his liminoidly inspiring source. Metapoetic connections are further layered with inescepable presence timeless reader bound neither nor time. Thus, boundaries source-material, speaker, poet, poetry, inspiration stretched, whole metapoetic-liminoid process binds all humanity together same poetic re-creative play.