THEME: The Schoolboy

William Blake

The Schoolboy

From Songs of Experience

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.

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 through 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 nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, -

How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the mellowing year,
When the blasts of winter appear?

THEME: The theme of the poem is children's inborn felling of oneness with nature. Another important theme of the poem is the negative site of formal learning. The restrictions put by school rob children off their childhood happiness. too much " dos and don'ts" acts like a hurdle for the natural expression of creativity. 

Meaning: কবিতাটির প্রতিপাদ্য হ'ল বাচ্চাদের প্রকৃতির সাথে একতার একজাতীয় জন্ম। কবিতার আর একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বিষয় হ'ল আনুষ্ঠানিক শিক্ষার নেতিবাচক সাইট। স্কুল দ্বারা নিষেধাজ্ঞাগুলি শিশুদের শৈশবকালের সুখ ছিনিয়ে নেয়। সৃজনশীলতার স্বাভাবিক প্রকাশের জন্য খুব বেশি "ডস এবং ডোনস" বাধা হিসাবে কাজ করে।