POEM - 4 : The School Boy English - POEM - 4 : The School Boy

The poet says that a bird is born for......

The words 'dreary shower' mean ………

"The learning's bower' refers to ……..

The phrase 'outworn' refers to ......

In the line "The distant huntsman winds his horn' the word 'winds' means ………..

O ! Father and Mother, if buds are mipd.
And blossoms blown away.
And if the tender plants are strip'd
Of their joy in the springing day.
By sorrow and cares dismay.
How shall the summer arise in joy.
Or the summer fruits appear?
Questions:
(1) What do the phrases 'buds are nip'd' and blossoms blown away' convey?
(2) What do the words 'tender plants' refer to?
(3) What does 'summer' in this poem stand for?

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
Questions:
(1) Why does the boy sit drooping in the classroom?
(2) What does the boy not find any delight in?
(3) What comparison is made in the second stanza?

I love to rise in a summer morn,
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.
Questions:
(1) 'o! what sweet company. What company is referred to here?
(2) What is it that the boy hates to do in a summer morning?
(3) How do children spend their day at school in a summer morning? Why so?

Explain the Theme of the 'The School Boy' by William Blake.

Explain Of their joy in the springing day. By sorrow and cares dismay' as is perceived by the poet.

Describe the summer morn' as described in the poem.

Why do you think the school boy finds going to school an ordeal?