pls explain the poem paragraph by paragraph (the school boy)

In the first stanza, the poet beholds and praises the beauty of nature.The summer morning, the birds and the huntsmen and the skylark appeals to the poet's senses of beauty.


 

In the second stanza, the poet laments the burden of the education system on a child. It extracts all the joy and happiness from a child's life. A child has to live in dismay, sadness and cruelty of the system.


 

In the third stanza, the child expresses his grief on the unyeilding status of his mind. He takes no delight in the books and is anxious and dreary about his student life.


 

In the fourth stanza, he compares himself to a bird which is supposed to fly freely but is caged and trapped. A child is forced to neglect his childhood and live in a frightening scary fear.


 

In the last stanza, he interrogates his parents asking them how can be a summer blooming and fruitful if the buds are nipped and plants are cut and destroyed in their spring season. In other words, how can the youthful future be bright and fruitful if the child is suppressed and trapped inside the school. The poet propagates the importance of imagination in contrast to the dry and rigid education system.

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