On Leaving Mrs. Brown's Lodgings
On Leaving Mrs. Brown's Lodgings - meaning Summary
Departure to Pastoral Freedom
A speaker announces a cheerful departure from Mrs. Brown's lodging and contrasts sordid, cramped town life with an idealized rural scene. He lists petty urban nuisances—bites, fights, drinking, stench—and then imagines clean, merry pastures where lambs play and hay seems freshly sown. The tone is light and humorous, balancing comic exaggeration of city annoyances with a nostalgic, almost satirical vision of country escape.
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