The Gypsy
The Gypsy - meaning Summary
Itinerant Lives Encounter
A brief conversational scene between the speaker and a traveling man (a gypsy) frames memories of itinerant life. The man asks whether the speaker has seen others like him, with performing animals, while mist and rain close around a rural road. The speaker recalls fairs and caravans but notes the absence of apes or bears, suggesting themes of movement, communal identity, and the small, elusive differences that mark lives on the road.
Read Complete AnalysesThat was the top of the walk, when he said: 'Have you seen any others, any of our lot, With apes or bears?' A brown upstanding fellow Not like the half-castes, up on the wet road near Clermont. The wind came, and the rain, And mist clotted about the trees in the valley, And I’d the long ways behind me, gray Aries and Biaucaire, And he said, 'Have you seen any of our lot?' I'd seen a lot of his lot . . . ever since Rhodez, Coming down from the fair of St. John, With caravans, but never an ape or a bear.
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