The Final Simile of 'The Scholar-Gypsy'.

The article proposes that the final simile in the poem "The Scholarly-Gypsy" by Matthew Arnold referred to English poet Alfred Tennyson. Topics discussed include medical metaphor in the poem as criticism of Tennyson's elegy "In Memoriam," intellectual curiosity of the scholarly-gypsy versus Tennyson's intellectual throne, Arnold's diagnosis of modern life disease and parody of the content of "In Memoriam," references to merchants' bales in both poems, and epic heroism of the scholarly-gypsy.