summary of 'the school boy'

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The poem " The School Boy" was written by William Blake, it is part of his " Songs of Innocence" published in 1789.In the poem the poet talks about a child that wakes up in the morning and all the hapiness he feels disapears when he realizes that he has to go to school.The main theme is the sorrow that the boy feels having to go to school, when he wants to enjoy summer. He has the obligation to go to a close space, but he wants to go outside.Another theme is nature, the freedom that it represents for the boy and the opression of the class. This repression is also represented by the boy´s parents who force him to go there.It is written in first person, the word "I" is quite present in the poem and refers to Blake himself.In my opinion, the author, William Blake, when he wrote the poem as an adult, he still remembered an experience of his childhood. He wrote the poem from a child´s viewpoint.He wrote his child feelings in a summer morning and in a way, he complaint to his parents. Maybe, now he as an adult has voice and he uses it, because if you are a child everybody ignores you.Taking into account that this book is written for children, Blake knows that children may feel in the same way as him and can help them.

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