1st PUC ENGLISH NOTES - THE SCHOOL BOY SUMMARY

 

THE SCHOOL BOY SUMMARY

WILLIAM BLAKE

 

William Blake has written a beautiful poem "The School Boy". This poem is about a sad schoolboy. He loves the summer mornings and is fond of seeing the birds and the trees. We realize that morning time is loaded with hopes. He tracks down the far off sound of the huntsman's horn lovely. He wishes to sing with the skylark. So, he enjoys the company of nature.

 

The school boy feels unhappy when he needs to go to the school, his morning hours pass sadly. Therefore, his life at school is also troubling. He isn't interested studies. Indeed, even the teacher's teaching bore him. The teacher also watches out all the students with the goal that the students should follow rules and regulations of the school. His day is spent in sadness, trouble and distress. He loses all his happiness. The poet compares the school and a tree under which children sit and learn. The boy says he doesn't discover peace sitting under this tree moreover.

 

We as a whole realize that the pleasure of childhood lies in being free and cheerful like a bird. The poet compares the school boy as a bird in a cage. He says that as a bird is sad in the cage so is the boy in school. He says that a boy who is scared by his teachers can't be cheerful.

 

Parents should not deprive child's happiness and freedom for the sake of studies. Depriving them of joy and freedom is similar to deprive the world of its spring. The poet compares it and nipping the buds and blossoms from the plants. He is of the opinion that this world will be a pitiful place without any childhood happiness.

The poet says that without a happy childhood, we will just have a winter of sorrow. He beautifully compares it with nature. We will always be unable to experience delightful summer.

 

It is parents’ duty to see that our kids are cheerful, free and happy. Assuming we need our generations to be prosperous and happy we need to make their childhood a cheerful one. The poem teaches that parents should take care of children happiness.