Question

what does the sweet company refers to in the poem the school boy

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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".[3] 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.[3] Meaning something that was born to be free and in nature, is instead trapped inside and made to be obedient.