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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. In the morning, the child feels happy listening to the birds sing and other pleasant sounds of nature. 2. At school, the child feels suffocated, disappointed and sad under the strict supervision of the teacher. 3. The child compares himself to a caged bird because just like a caged bird cannot fly freely, he too feels he cannot do anything freely at school and has to sit in class unwillingly. 4. The child appeals to his parents to save his childhood pleasures and not suppress them, as depriving a child of natural joy and delight will make him grow into a pessimistic adult.

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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. In the morning, the child feels happy listening to the birds sing and other pleasant sounds of nature. 2. At school, the child feels suffocated, disappointed and sad under the strict supervision of the teacher. 3. The child compares himself to a caged bird because just like a caged bird cannot fly freely, he too feels he cannot do anything freely at school and has to sit in class unwillingly. 4. The child appeals to his parents to save his childhood pleasures and not suppress them, as depriving a child of natural joy and delight will make him grow into a pessimistic adult.

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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. In the morning, the child feels happy listening to the birds sing and other pleasant sounds of nature. 2. At school, the child feels suffocated, disappointed and sad under the strict supervision of the teacher. 3. The child compares himself to a caged bird because just like a caged bird cannot fly freely, he too feels he cannot do anything freely at school and has to sit in class unwillingly. 4. The child appeals to his parents to save his childhood pleasures and not suppress them, as depriving a child of natural joy and delight will make him grow into a pessimistic adult.

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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. In the morning, the child feels happy listening to the birds sing and other pleasant sounds of nature. 2. At school, the child feels suffocated, disappointed and sad under the strict supervision of the teacher. 3. The child compares himself to a caged bird because just like a caged bird cannot fly freely, he too feels he cannot do anything freely at school and has to sit in class unwillingly. 4. The child appeals to his parents to save his childhood pleasures and not suppress them, as depriving a child of natural joy and delight will make him grow into a pessimistic adult.

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    The School Boy BY

    WILLIAM BLAK
    E

    Class VIII – Honeydew


    ABOUT THE
    POET

    WILLIAM BLAKE (2 8 NOVEMBER 1 7 57 – 1 2


    AUGUST
    1 8 7 2) WAS AN ENGLISH POET, PAINTER, AND
    PRINTMAKER. LARGELY UNRECOGNIZED DURING
    HIS LIFETIME, BLAKE IS NOW CONSIDERED A
    SEMINAL
    FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF THE POETRY
    AND VISUAL ARTS OF THE ROMANTIC
    AGE.
    Theme of the Poem
    “The School Boy”
    “The School Boy” is a short poem
    that is separated into six stanzas.
    The poem is penned from the
    perspective of a young boy who is
    fed up of formal teaching and
    hates being trapped in the class.
    The poem also highlights the
    truth that happiness lies in
    freedom.
    Stanza 1
    In the first stanza of the poem the school boy
    says that he loves to rise in a
    summer morning when the birds
    sing on every tree, the huntsman blows his
    horn far away and theskylark sings
    with him. The stanza is
    about all the
    things that make
    the school
    boy
    Stanza 2
    All his joy disappears when it is time to go to school. He
    feels very suffocated and disappointed under the
    strict supervision of his teacher. He really feels sad
    for himself and his classmates who are forced to
    confine in the classroom bearing with the unpleasant
    stare of the teacher.
    Stanza 3
    The boy continues to be in the state of depression as he has to sit
    in the classroom unwillingly. He sits drooping and spends
    anxious hours in the class without finding any delight in the
    books. He is tired, and dull showering of words fail to teach
    him. Here Learning’s bower refers to the classroom and
    showering of words refers to volley of words that comes from
    the teacher in quick succession.
    Stanza 4
    The poet compares a child with a
    bird. A bird which is born just
    to chirp beautifully and fly
    freely in the sky, cannot sing
    sweet songs if it is caged. The
    boy feels like a caged bird who
    is not free to do anything at his
    own will. A caged bird droops
    its tender wings and forgets to
    fly. In the same way the school
    boy forgets to be happy.
    Stanza 5
    Now the child appeals to his parents to save his
    childhood. According to him children are like
    tender plants who should be dealt with care. If
    the buds are nipped, how can these bloom. If
    the plants are stripped, how there will be joy in
    springtime.
    It implies that if
    childhood pleasures are
    suppressed, he grows into
    a pessimistic adult.
    Stanza 6
    In these concluding lines the poet emphasizes that if this
    happens i.e. plants are deprived of buds and flowers,
    there will be no joy let in the summer. This will result
    in flowerless and fruitless summer that will be utterly
    unattractive. In the same
    way a child who is
    deprived of natural joy and
    delight in the childhood stage
    can never growas a
    cheerful
    and optimistic person.
     Cruel eye – the unkind stare
    outworn – disappointment
     Dismay – depressed with head
     Drooping down
     Anxious – worried
     Learning’s – classroom
    bower – cheerless
     Dreary – crushed
     Nip’d – deprived
     Strip’d
    Q. Read the extracts given on below and answer the questions that
    1. I love
    follow each:to rise in
    summer
    when morn
    the birds sing on every
    tree; The distant huntsman
    winds his horn, And the
    skylark sings with me
    O! what a sweet company
    Now answer the following questions
    –
    a) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?
    b) When does he arise?
    2. But to go to school in a
    summer morn, O! It drives all
    joy away;
    Under a cruel eye
    outworn, The little
    i) ones
    Whospend
    speaksthe day, In
    these
    lines?and dismay.
    sighing (c)A school
    (a)A little boy peon
    (b)The poet (d)A school
    himself teacher
    (c)Senior
    ii) Whose eyes are students’
    cruel? (d)Classmates’
    i) Those spendnig the day in dsm
    i ay are

    (a) The little chdliren (c) The teachers


    (b) The office staff (d) None of these

    i) Which wod
    r in the above stanza means d‘siapponitment’

    (a) outworn (c) dsm


    i ay
    (b) sgihnig (d) None of these
    Assignmen
    t
     Answer the following questions:

    1. How does the child feel in the morning?


    2. What does the child feel at school?
    3. Why does the child compare himself to a caged
    bird?
    4. What does the child appeal to the parents?

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