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The schoolboy
William Blake
1. When does the school boy love to rise?
In the summer morning.
2. Whose company does the school boy love?
Skylark’s
3. Who are the ‘little ones’?
The school children
4. Why does the child not take delight in the book?
Because it finds the task tiresome as it finds the book boring.
5. What does the school boy advise his parents?
The school boy advices his parents not to spoil the joys of childhood.if the joys of childhood are spoilt,
the children have nothing to look forward to in the later stages of lige.
6. What is the school boy compared to?
A caged bird.
7. Why are the little ones anxious?
The little ones are anxious because they know that in school they will be controlled by the
authoritative ways of teaching.
8. Who do you think the ‘cruel eye’ refers to?
To the authoritative ways of teaching.
9. What should not be nipped by the parents?
Buds, which means the joys of childhood.
10. What does the ‘bird’ metaphorically refer to?
The child with the free spirit.
11. Where do the children spend ‘many an anxious hour’ in the poem ‘The School Boy’?
In the learning bower, which means, in the school.