With what vision did the Scholar Gipsy leave the university In The Scholar Gipsy Matthew Arnold - tells the story of a poor Oxford student who left the university He did not leave because he was lazy or unhappy He left with a special vision a dream to find peace and powerful knowledge from the gipsies The Scholar s Aim The Scholar Gipsy was a very clever and curious student The poet says he had a quick inventive brain He was not happy with the normal life of study and job He wanted to learn the secret knowledge of the gipsies This was his one dream and one purpose Finding Deep Knowledge One day the Scholar Gipsy left Oxford and went to live with the gipsy people He did not tell anyone He just disappeared His goal was to learn their art or skill He wanted to learn everything from