Summary of the poem "The School Boy"by William Blake.
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The School Boy" is a poem written in the pastoral tradition that focuses on the downsides of formal learning. 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
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Introduction
In this poem, a school boy speaks. He is an unhappy child. His childhood is crushed in the name of learning and teaching.
Happy Morning
The boy likes the morning. He is pleased to see the trees and the birds. The distant sound of the huntsman’s horn is pleasant. He wants to sing with the skylark. In brief the nature seems to offer a sweet company.
Unhappy Morning
However, his morning hours pass unhappily. He lives a worrisome life in the school. Neither the books nor the teacher’s lecture interest him.
Childhood
The pleasure of childhood is in being free and happy like a bird. But a child is put in the school just as a bird is put in the cage. So the child is as unhappy as a caged bird.
The Parents
The parents should understand their fault. Depriving the child of joy and freedom means depriving the world of its spring. It is like nipping the buds and flowers from the plants. The world is a sorrowful place without happy childhood.
The Summer of Joy
In the absence of a happy childhood, we shall have winter of sorrow. The summer (heat) of joy will never be there.
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