The School Boy
The speaker in this poem is a young boy who feels joyful to rise in the fresh and delightful summer morning. The chirping of the birds announces the day-break. The boy gets entertained by the company of the hunter who blows his clarion from a distance field and sweet lullabies of skylark.
It is a matter of utmost disappointment for the speaker to attend school in a sweet summer morning where actually he wishes to enjoy the mirth of summer. He is tired and even puzzled under the strict supervision of his teacher. Instead of enjoying the pleasures of summer, the child has to attend school where he spends his day in boredom and dismay.
The child expresses his weariness. He sits drooping out in the sea of tediousness. The child restrains the assault on him by the oppressive personality of the teacher and unnecessary lectures (shower of meaningless words) the finicky teacher gushes his words of erudition without even attempting to understand the child’s intention and his urge for unchecked freedom.
A bird which is born cheerful and jovial can never sing sweet songs if caged. Similarly, a child if remained under the shade of constant fear and tension, can never enjoy the natural instincts of joy and playfulness. Indeed a world full of rigid course of discipline will ruthlessly take away the beautiful springs (the childhood days) of a person’s life.
The boy complains to the highest authority, to father and mother, if a budding child is picked and swept off in the early stage of life in an ocean of sorrow, where there is no one to care for. If misery withers the tender plants, the beautiful buds and the new born buds, summer can never be joyful.
