Describe the boys experience in the school?
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In the poem 'The School Boy' by William Blake, the school boy does not like going to school. He is tired, bored, annoyed and tensed when he is trapped in the classroom by his supervising teacher. He wants to play outside in the pleasant summer weather but is confined to the walls of the classroom. He feels as helpless as a bird trapped in a cage. He is denied the pleasure of learning things in the natural environment. He is, thus, subjected to the cruel system of formal education while being denied imaginative, creative and spiritual freedom.
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The boy's experience in school is full of fear and discouragement. The authoritarian way of teaching makes the boy sigh in dismay.His boredom and fear are reflected in the drooping manner in which he sits and the restlessness that he exhibits. The books give him no joy and the school makes him feel worn out