Chronotope in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village

Chronotope is a literary theory introduced by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (5981-5891). It is the study of the configurations of time and space in language. This theory can be easily applied to literary works in order to decode the temporal-spatial references in them. The aim with this paper is to apply this theory on one of the poems by Oliver Goldsmith (5979-5991) titled The Deserted Village. It is a poem mostly of social commentary which condemns rural depopulation and the excessive pursuit of wealth by the upper classes of the society. The argument is mostly geared toward where exactly in the poem we can find chronotopic clues and whether this theory is applicable on poetry as well as narrative and prose literary works