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The School Boy

WRITTEN BY WILIAM BLAKE

 About The Poet
William Blake
Born-28 November 1757  at 28 Broad Street
(now Broadwick St.) in Soho, London.
English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Proponent of Romantic Age
Died- 12 August 1827
Major works
Songs of Innocence and
of Experience
Songs of Experience
The Book Of Thel
The Marriage Of
Heaven and Hell
Visions of The
Daughters Of Albion
Continental Prophecy
The First Book Of Urizen
The Book of Los
Milton
The cottage in Felpham where Blake lived from
1800 until 1803.
 THE SCHOOL BOY
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet company!

But to go to school in a summer morn,-

O it drives all joy way!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day
In sighing and dismay.

Ah then at times I drooping sit,

And spend many an anxious hour;
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn through with dreary shower.
How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring!

O father and mother if buds are nipped,

And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,-

How shall the summer arise in joy,

Or the summer fruits appear?
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the mellowing year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
 Major Themes
Poet presents the boy who does not like to go to
school because it drives all the beauty of nature
away.
Poem tries to convey the massage that preventing
the joy of a child is like nipping the buds before
it blooms.
Poet concludes with a question that how athe
summer will be joyful if the blast of winter
appears?
 The Boy

The poet uses the school boy as a

better medium for conveying his
worship towards nature.
 A child inside in a bored class room is like a
caged bird
• Poet says that just like birds which are not
supposed to be sit in a cage but to fly in sky
and sing songs of joy, children are not
supposed to sit inside the class before a cruel
master but to enjoy their life at the most.
 New Words
Sky lark Bower
 Poetic Devices
• metaphor- poet uses metaphor for comparing
the school boy who was deprived of his joy to
a caged bird that is restricted to fly in the sky.
Its Your Turn.!
-Think about your class room.
-How do you feel inside your class room?
-write a short note on your experience.
Reference:
Abhishek(2013).The School Boy Analysis by William Blake.Retrieved
Fromhttps://beamingnotes.com/2013/06/24/the-school-boy-analysis-by-
william-blake/
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