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Comment 3 of 3, added on May 31st, 2006 at 10:12 AM.
i have the 'Oxford student text' book of Blake's innocence and experience and in the book, "the schoolboy" is in the innocence volume not the experience? Can anybody back that up??? Thnx
kayla Jay
Comment 2 of 3, added on November 14th, 2004 at 8:46 PM.
The poem is rather simple.
The boy is basically saying that by constantly being in school, and not enjoying happiness while in the prime of his life [youth obviously], he will not mature to his full potential as an adult, he will be incomplete. Note also that he mentions: "Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy (...) when the blasts of winter appear?". In other words, how will he be able to overcome the hardships in life (winter) if he has never felt happiness?
A typically romantic poem: Blake has clearly taken a position against the institutions of his time [in this case it is the school || "Little Vagabond" is against the Church, and many more].
Michael from Canada
Comment 1 of 3, added on October 29th, 2004 at 2:03 PM.
Stanza I:It begins as the little boy enjoys waking to the sounds of the morn
Stanza II: but to have to go to school is disheartening
Stanza III: He tires of the days work
Stanza IV: Little boy compares himself to a caged bird who forgets his song because of its confinement; loss of joy. (losing self-image?)
Stanza V: He pleads to his parents, with a comparision between young plants that are stripped and lost and himself
Stanza VI: finishes the question with how is he supposed to feel happy when school is so depressing.
It sounds as if he's beginning to lose the person that he used to be as so often happens in the confinment of school lessons.
Christine Northrup from United States
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i have the 'Oxford student text' book of Blake's innocence and experience and in the book, "the schoolboy" is in the innocence volume not the experience? Can anybody back that up??? Thnx
kayla Jay