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The Schoolboy by William, Blake, , This piece was first published in the second, half of Blake’s masterpiece, Songs of, Experience. The publication of this volume, came approximately five years after the, publication of Songs of Innocence in, , 1789. These poems were later combined and, republished together as Songs of Innocence, and Experience. Blake's ‘The Schoolboy’ is a, pastoral poem that focuses on the problems, inherent in formal learning. The boy, who hates, going to school, feels that he would be better, , educated by the natural world.

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The poem begins with the young narrator, speaking on his ideal morning. He wakes and, hears the birds and the “distant huntsman”, blowing his “horn.” The second stanza jumps, to the mornings he despairs of in which he is, forced to leave his peaceful sanctuary and go, , to school., , The next two stanzas are infused with, melodrama and are meant to elicit sympathy, with the reader. The boy describes his, miserable days at school and how, like a, trapped bird that cannot sing, he should not be, required to learn in restraints., , The speaker turns to plead with his parents., , He tells them that if this continues his “buds”, are going to be “nipped,” his joy ripped from, him, and the loss of his childhood will result in, unpreparedness for life. He will not be able to, last through the real trials of life, or winters as, , he describes them.

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Summary of The, Schoolboy, , ‘The Schoolboy’ by William Blake is told, from the perspective of a young boy who, is trying to get out of ever going back to, school, stating that it is negatively, impacting him., , The poem begins with the young narrator, speaking on his ideal morning. He wakes and, hears the birds and the “distant huntsman’”, blowing his “horn.” The second stanza jumps, to the mornings he despairs of in which he is, forced to leave his peaceful sanctuary and go, , to school.

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The next two stanzas are infused with, melodrama and are meant to elicit sympathy, with the reader. The boy describes his, miserable days at school and how, like a, trapped bird that cannot sing, he should not be, required to learn in restraints., , The speaker turns to plead with his parents., , He tells them that if this continues his “buds”, are going to be “nipped,” his joy ripped from, him, and the loss of his childhood will result in, unpreparedness for life. He will not be able to, last through the real trials of life, or winters as, , he describes them.

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These are the types of companies he desires., This is when he is happiest, a sentiment that, , many a Romantic poet has expressed.