The Flower School by Rabindranath Tagore.

The poem is about a young child, who talks to

his mother about how flowers also go to school. When the storm - clouds burst in the sky and
it begins to rain in the month of June, the wind comes with a great speed over an open
uncultivated land to blow its musical instruments (bagpipes among the bamboos. (The wind
passes through the bamboos producing a melodious sound). The crowd of flowers bloom
suddenly, from somewhere and dance upon the grass in the wild (uncontrolled) happiness.
Here, the child shares his views with his mother saying that, he feels the flowers go to school
underground, where they learn the lessons behind the shut doors. And even if they wish to
come out to play before their lessons are done, their teacher does not allow them to come out,
rather he makes them stand in a corner. The child further says, however, when the rain falls,
these flowers have their holidays. When it rains, the branches of the trees in the forest hit
together. The leaves make 2 whispering sound in the wild wind. The thunder — clouds make
a noise by clapping their big hands and the flower children come out dressed in different
colours(Pink, yellow, white). In the last stanza, the child asks his mother if she knew that the
home of the flowers was in the sky. He again asks her if she had noticed how eager the
flowers always were to get back to their home and why they were in such a hurry to reach
home. In the last two lines the child says that he knows to whom these flowers raise their
arms. They raise their arms to their mother up in the sky as the child does it in the presence of
his mother. (The last line of the poem says that the poet Rabindranath Tagore is longing for
his dead mother who has also become a star in the sky.)

This poem is a vivid description of budding flowers and their growth in spring, and it
compares flowers to young school children. The speaker seems to be a young child, who
speaks to a mother figure in the poem saying that he believes that the flowers must go to
school underground.

About the Poem : | ~ In this poem the speaker is excitedly watching the monsoon rain and
noticing small flowers that have bloomed all_over the place. He wonders where they had
been all the year round. The child imagines they must have been in school just like him. The
speaker wonders why the pretty flowers are so eager to come out and play. He concludes that
they too need the warmth and love of their mother.

Flowers are a beautiful creation of God. We enjoy their beauty, smell

their fragrance to refresh our-mind. But do you know they also go to school?
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Where is their school? Who teaches them? Do they have full freedom at

school or have some restrictions? Do they have holidays?

In the poem, Tagore uses figures of speech like metaphor, imagery,

personification, and symbolism to convey the intellectual meaning of
flowers. In this poem, the school children are compared to flowers.

The Flower-school

When storm-clouds rumble in the sky and June showers come down. The moist east wind
comes marching over the heath to blow its bagpipes among the bamboos.

Then crowds of flowers come out of a sudden, from побобу knows where, and dance upon
the grass in wild glee.

Mother, I really think the flowers go to school underground. They do their lessons with doors
shut, and if they want to come out to play before it is time, their master makes them stand in a
corner.

When the rain come they have their holidays.

Branches clash together in the forest, and the leaves rustle

in the wild wind, the thunder-clouds clap their giant hands and the flower children rush out in
dresses of pink and yellow and white. Do you know, mother, their home is in the sky, where
the stars

are.

Haven't you see how eager they are to get there? Don't you know why they are in such a
hurry?

Of course, I can guess to whom they raise their arms ; they have their mother as I have my
own.
Rabindranath Tagore