Question

The School Boy
The school boy in the poem is not a happy child. What makes him unhappy? Why does
he compare himself to a bird that lives in a cage, or a plant that withers when it should
blossom.
I love to rise in a summer mom
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 away:
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 thro' with the 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 nip'd.
And blossoms blown away,
And If the tender plants are strip'd
of their joy in the springing day.
By sorrow and cares dismay.

Answer the following questions.
a)why does the author love to rise in a summer morning ?
b)Whom does 'a cruel eye' refer to?
c)What does the author mean when
he says that a bird is locked in a cage?
d)What is the message behind the poem?
e)Which poetic device is used in stanza 4?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) because the birds sing on every tree

b) the poet

c) the auther is refering some one catched the bird and kept in acage

Answer 2

Answer:

1. The author love to rise in a summer morning because sing in every trees .
2. The little one is refer to as 'a cruel eye's .
3. The author mean to say that when he saw a blossom he compared himself as a bird who is locked in a cage.
4. Take care for happiness.
5. Tender plant.