child is symbolically winked birds:
to
both shouldb e
free
‘THE SCHOOLBOY’
bold declarative:joyful +
inspired
I love to rise in a summer morn,
school
innocent boy
= narrator 4- by nature
-D
When the birds sing on every tree;
->country side activity
butcould
forebode
The distant huntsman winds his horn, the childs capture and imprisonment
5 unity:innocence
And the skylark sings with me.
->
O! what sweet company! exclamatory phrase suggests jubalance
ennanced
by cataletic metre ↓ child takes please seen
plosive conjunction offer contrast to
verse one.
*
But to go to school on a summer morn,
plantive
sorrowgul -
exclaimation -
O! it drives all joy away; dynamic veryharshness
and compulsion
synedoche for ·Creul':restrictiveness
-
Preposition =
oppression /
#
Under a cruel eye outworn, myopia means
the
they
teacher
fail to
recognise
whose
the
crying, ineffective corporal punishment
power less nature
of teacher.
·outworn'
The little ones spend the day
loss
diminutive ofimaginative
adjective =
power
vulnerability &-
-*
In sighing and dismay. hendiadys-2 nowns gerunas
emphasises mysery
⑤
verb unnatural
=
wilting inverted syntax =
plantive
cry =*- like a
glower:sucked ofunnatural disruption
miserable in
Pain
Ah! then at times I drooping sit, life
-
endurance
-
And spend many an anxious hour, misey connotations.
Nor in my book can I take delight,
harsh alliterate sounds:b itteness
[ misery
wonic:education leads to to
+
feel divorced from the
* written moral learning,
anaphora -
Nor sit in learning's bower,
building
negative lexis:a loss of
negative
Worn thro' with the dreary shower. Vitali +y
L
ironically the school replaces the natural
symbolic of Child
Moria
bringing misery
⑤
How can the bird that is born for joy -
symbolicof
school +
oppression
repeated rhetorical question:Give to reader:
d idatic
Sit in a cage and sing? child expresses self challanges superior
quality
knowledge adults
the hierarchy
How can a child, when fears annoy,
↑
embodied in the education
system
1.
loss
vitality freedom
+
of
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?
↓ education is oppressive demanding
pun on
youth ju agency obediance runing
+
through fear
the
+
season
O! father and mother, if buds are nipped parental
is unable
responsibility:t hey
to
are not
present so
+
he
express himself.
And blossoms blown away,
violentverbs:harshness
And if the tender plants are stripped damage
+
natural image symbolic of children
I
Of their joy in the springing day, how
juxtaposition conveys unnatural such
By sorrow and care's dismay, Constrainti s and its
consequences
1
personified abelligent force
symbolic ofyouth which shouldinclude
spiritual
How shall the summer arise in joy, growth t happiness
Or the summer's fruits appear? Winter, metaphor for advethood
survived
experience that
brings sorrow o
struggle cannotb e if your spiriti s already
distroyed as
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy, a child.
reference
Or bless the mellowing year,
seasonal
cyclical pattern enhancing
-
sense of
entrapmentemphasising
When the blasts of winter appear? childs links to nature,
rhetorical questions:building
argument anaphora growing
:
justration
in +
the
and
justration +
conditionality of the situation.
to
both shouldb e
free
‘THE SCHOOLBOY’
bold declarative:joyful +
inspired
I love to rise in a summer morn,
school
innocent boy
= narrator 4- by nature
-D
When the birds sing on every tree;
->country side activity
butcould
forebode
The distant huntsman winds his horn, the childs capture and imprisonment
5 unity:innocence
And the skylark sings with me.
->
O! what sweet company! exclamatory phrase suggests jubalance
ennanced
by cataletic metre ↓ child takes please seen
plosive conjunction offer contrast to
verse one.
*
But to go to school on a summer morn,
plantive
sorrowgul -
exclaimation -
O! it drives all joy away; dynamic veryharshness
and compulsion
synedoche for ·Creul':restrictiveness
-
Preposition =
oppression /
#
Under a cruel eye outworn, myopia means
the
they
teacher
fail to
recognise
whose
the
crying, ineffective corporal punishment
power less nature
of teacher.
·outworn'
The little ones spend the day
loss
diminutive ofimaginative
adjective =
power
vulnerability &-
-*
In sighing and dismay. hendiadys-2 nowns gerunas
emphasises mysery
⑤
verb unnatural
=
wilting inverted syntax =
plantive
cry =*- like a
glower:sucked ofunnatural disruption
miserable in
Pain
Ah! then at times I drooping sit, life
-
endurance
-
And spend many an anxious hour, misey connotations.
Nor in my book can I take delight,
harsh alliterate sounds:b itteness
[ misery
wonic:education leads to to
+
feel divorced from the
* written moral learning,
anaphora -
Nor sit in learning's bower,
building
negative lexis:a loss of
negative
Worn thro' with the dreary shower. Vitali +y
L
ironically the school replaces the natural
symbolic of Child
Moria
bringing misery
⑤
How can the bird that is born for joy -
symbolicof
school +
oppression
repeated rhetorical question:Give to reader:
d idatic
Sit in a cage and sing? child expresses self challanges superior
quality
knowledge adults
the hierarchy
How can a child, when fears annoy,
↑
embodied in the education
system
1.
loss
vitality freedom
+
of
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?
↓ education is oppressive demanding
pun on
youth ju agency obediance runing
+
through fear
the
+
season
O! father and mother, if buds are nipped parental
is unable
responsibility:t hey
to
are not
present so
+
he
express himself.
And blossoms blown away,
violentverbs:harshness
And if the tender plants are stripped damage
+
natural image symbolic of children
I
Of their joy in the springing day, how
juxtaposition conveys unnatural such
By sorrow and care's dismay, Constrainti s and its
consequences
1
personified abelligent force
symbolic ofyouth which shouldinclude
spiritual
How shall the summer arise in joy, growth t happiness
Or the summer's fruits appear? Winter, metaphor for advethood
survived
experience that
brings sorrow o
struggle cannotb e if your spiriti s already
distroyed as
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy, a child.
reference
Or bless the mellowing year,
seasonal
cyclical pattern enhancing
-
sense of
entrapmentemphasising
When the blasts of winter appear? childs links to nature,
rhetorical questions:building
argument anaphora growing
:
justration
in +
the
and
justration +
conditionality of the situation.
