Briefly examine the structure of William Blake’s poem, The School Boy. William Blake’s “The School Boy” is unique in structure/form. Characteristically, the poem is structured in six stanzas of equal lines with five lines in each stanza. Therefore, the poem comprises thirty lines in all. The stanzas contain series of run-on-lines and this makes reading …
Comment on the significance of the poetic devices used in the poem. Several poetic devices/techniques have been used for significant effects. For instance, the diction is musical and full of sound effects. These are achieved the existence or alliterations such as: “his horn”, “sky-lark sings”, “the tender”, “shall…summer”, “we…what”, etc. In addition to repetitions, like …
Briefly discuss the mood of the speaker in the poem, The School Boy. he speaker is in a sad mood. The sadness is as a result of doing what he does not like and being denied what he loves doing. This denial brings him sorrow, The mood is captured in these lines: “To go to …
What is the thematic preoccupation of The School Boy, by William Blake? The popular message of this poem is a protest against one’s deprivation from nature. The school boy is in love with only the things of nature: the songs of the birds, the horns of huntsmen and the shade and serenity of “bowers”. I …
POETIC ANALYSIS William Blake tells of the agony of a school boy, who prefers freedom, its accompanying romance with nature to the engagement and unnecessary restrictions of the school. This boy enjoys every other thing at summer, but school and its activities, he detests with passion. These are contained in the following lines of the …