Question

Que. 10:
What drives all the joy away in the poem
"The School Boy"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

It considers how going to school on a summer day "drives all joy away". The boy in this poem is more interested in escaping his classroom than he is with anything his teacher is trying to teach. In lines 16–20, a child in school is compared to a bird in a cage.

Answer 2

• "The School Boy" is the poem written in  pastoral tradition that it focuses on  downsides of the formal learning. It is considered that  how going to school on the summer day "drives all the joy away". The boy in poem is more interested in escaping his classroom than  with anything that  his teacher is trying to teach.

• On the summer morning, school-boy would like to rise early when  birds sing,  distant huntsman blows his horn & skylark sings with him. He considers all these to be sweet company. But, he is not allowed to do this as he has to go to school &  school drives all joy away.

• (i) The child seems to be dislike going to school as it takes away  joy & happiness.
• (ii) The child hates to be under the scrutiny. He dislikes fact that he had to spend his day in supervision of the inconsiderate person.

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