Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,

Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:

Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;

A breath can make them, as a breath has made;

But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,

When once destroyed can never be supplied. (Lines 51-56)

The greed that destroys the peasantry eventually drives Poetry herself to leave England.

What does the above quote from The Deserted Village, lines 51-56, mean?

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Hezekiah Shields

9 January, 13:31

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,

Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:

Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;

A breath can make them, as a breath has made;

But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,

When once destroyed can never be supplied. (Lines 51-56)

The greed that destroys the peasantry eventually drives Poetry herself to leave England.

What does the above quote from The Deserted Village, lines 51-56, mean?

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Albert Bauer · Answer 1

The England forget about itself

Explanation:

The poem shows, that, through people interested in exploring the riches of the countryside, the earth becomes depressed, and through its destruction decides to die.

Shows a bolder field worker who is interested in the goods of his land, makes her never again the beautiful and beautiful England she once was.