poem the blind boy show great strength of character discus
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The poem “The Blind Boy” written by Colley Cibber describes experiences of a young boy who cannot see with his eyes. The poet tries to express what a blind boy feels and what the world and the worldly things are for him. The poem has been divided into five stanzas having four lines each.
The rhyme scheme of the poem is abab cdcd. There are no deep words and meaning. The lines are quite simple.
Stanza 1
The speaker in the poem is blind boy himself. He asks the others to help him understand what is “Light” which he has often heard other saying. It is something which he can never enjoy. Nor all those blessings which light has.
Stanza 2
In stanza 2, the blind says that people often “talk of wondrous things”
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Stanza 3
The blind boy says that unlike others, he himself makes his day as well as night. When he sleeps, it is night for him and whenever he awakes and plays, it becomes his day. The day never goes away until he keeps awake or playing.
In these lines for the first time, the blind boy seems to be proud of his blindness rather than sorry for his condition.
Stanza 4
The blind boy says the he feels quite sorrowful and grieved when he listens to the cries of others for his miserable condition (It is through their mourns, he comes to know that he is miserable).
According to him, he has patience and hence will be able to bear a loss (of