Q. What did William Blake have to say about school?
At school, there is no freedom; you will learn what you are told to learn, nothing more, nothing less. School cannot delight him. Stanza four compares good boy at school to a bird in a cage. A bird can’t sing in a cage and also, a child can’t be happy in school: his potential is restrained.
Q. What are Blakes views on formal education?
Blake disagreed strongly with formal education and people from having their own thoughts. Blake believed that children who were not given a formal education would want to learn of their own accord, making learning more fun and enjoyable. conventional teaching in schools.
Table of Contents
- Q. What did William Blake have to say about school?
- Q. What are Blakes views on formal education?
- Q. What is the message of the poem the school boy?
- Q. How does the school boy feel in the school?
- Q. Why did the school boy feel like being a caged bird?
- Q. Why is the little boy interested to go to school?
- Q. How did the little ones spend the day in school?
- Q. What does the child love about summer morning?
- Q. What does the child love about morning?
- Q. What is that he hates to do in a summer morning?
- Q. Why does the child hate going to school in the summer morning?
- Q. How does a child get angry?
- Q. What drives the child’s joy away?
- Q. What do kids say Huntsman?
- Q. What does the Huntsman do?
- Q. What does the Huntsman wind?
- Q. What is the Huntsman doing answer?
- Q. What does the boy like about the Huntsman * 2 points?
- Q. What drives all joy away?
- Q. Who is talking to when he say’s if buds are nip D?
- Q. What suddenly caught Mrs Sappleton’s attention?
- Q. Why is the speaker of the poem unhappy?
- Q. Why did he go to Lyonnesse?
- Q. Why didn’t he pay the school fees on the day he brought money to school?
- Q. How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
- Q. What did he find under the rock?
- Q. Why didn’t he eat all the Jalebis he had bought?
- Q. Did he get for rupees by playing the game what did he get to see under the rock?
- Q. What did the child feel like when he distributed the Jalebis?
- Q. What did the oldest coin tell him?
Q. What is the message of the poem the school boy?
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.
Q. How does the school boy feel in the school?
Answer : In the poem ‘The School Boy’ by William Blake, the school boy does not like going to school. He is tired, bored, annoyed and tensed when he is trapped in the classroom by his supervising teacher. He wants to play outside in the pleasant summer weather but is confined to the walls of the classroom.
Q. Why did the school boy feel like being a caged bird?
Why does the boy compare himself to a caged bird? Answer: Like a caged bird, the boy is also not free to do any thing at his own will. He wants to lead a life of freedom but he can’t because there are many restrictions on him.
Q. Why is the little boy interested to go to school?
Answer. Answer: The boy is not interested in going to school because his books hardly delights him. He feels all joy is driven away if one has to go to school in a summer morning and sit under the constant gaze of teacher.
Q. How did the little ones spend the day in school?
The little one sits in a relaxed and lethargic way, hunched in his classroom table. He finds no pleasure in any of the school activities and waits anxiously to let the day pass by and he could return back to his parents.
Q. What does the child love about summer morning?
Answer. Answer: The schoolboy loves to be out in the summer morning listening to the birds singing on the ever tree, the distant Huntsman wind his horn and the Skylark which sing with him and enjoy the Sweet Company.
Q. What does the child love about morning?
Answer: The schoolboy loves to be out in the summer morning listening to the birds singing on the ever tree, the distant Huntsman wind his horn and the Skylark which sing with him and enjoy the Sweet Company.
Q. What is that he hates to do in a summer morning?
What is it that he hates to do in a summer morning ? Answer: The child hates to go to school in a summer morning. Answer: The child shies at school.
Q. Why does the child hate going to school in the summer morning?
Answer: Child hates school because he is under strict control of his teacher. The child rise in the fresh and delightful summer morning. He is very happy but his parents force him to go to the school where he spends his time in sorrowfulness.
Q. How does a child get angry?
One common trigger is frustration when a child cannot get what he or she wants or is asked to do something that he or she might not feel like doing. For children, anger issues often accompany other mental health conditions, including ADHD, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette’s syndrome.
Q. What drives the child’s joy away?
Explanation: the boy longs to play in nature but going to school drives his Joy away …
Q. What do kids say Huntsman?
Answer. On a summer morn, the schoolboy would like to rise early when the birds sing, the distant huntsman blows his horn and the skylark sings with him. He considers all these to be the sweet company. But, he is not allowed to do this as he has to go to school and the school drives all joy away.
Q. What does the Huntsman do?
Huntsman Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of chemical products for consumers and industrial customers. Huntsman manufactures assorted polyurethanes, performance products, and adhesives for customers like BMW, GE, Chevron, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever.
Q. What does the Huntsman wind?
What does the huntsman wind in the poem ‘The School Boy’? Answer: The huntsman winds his horn.
Q. What is the Huntsman doing answer?
He is killing animals. He is sleeping under a tree.
Q. What does the boy like about the Huntsman * 2 points?
On a summer morn, the schoolboy would like to rise early when the birds sing, the distant huntsman blows his horn and the skylark sings with him. He considers all these to be the sweet company. But, he is not allowed to do this as he has to go to school and the school drives all joy away.
Q. What drives all joy away?
Answer: It considers how going to school on a summer day “drives all joy away”. The boy in this poem is more interested in escaping his classroom than he is with anything his teacher is trying to teach. In lines 16–20, a child in school is compared to a bird in a cage.
Q. Who is talking to when he say’s if buds are nip D?
Class 8 Question He is talking to his father and mother when he says “if buds are nip’d…” This discussion on Who is he talking to when he says “if buds are nip’d…”a) His parentsb) Teacherc) Caged birdd) All of the AboveCorrect answer is option ‘A’.
Q. What suddenly caught Mrs Sappleton’s attention?
Answer: Sappleton’s two young brothers and the dog – caught in the mire – never return – Mrs. Sappleton speaks of the open window – awaits the return …
Q. Why is the speaker of the poem unhappy?
Why is the speaker of the poem unhappy? The speaker of the poem, a little boy, is unhappy because he doesn’t like going to the school.
Q. Why did he go to Lyonnesse?
Answer: The poet set out for Lyonnesse to supervise renovation work of a church. He writes the poem to celebrate his successful attempt.
Q. Why didn’t he pay the school fees on the day he brought money to school?
Answer: The boy did not pay the school fees on the day he brought money to school because his teacher, Master Ghulam Mohammed who collected the fees was on leave that particular day and so the fees would be collected the next day.
Q. How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
Jody picked up the fawn into his arms and proceeded to home. After some distance, he kept the fawn down and took rest. Later on, the fawn followed him. Thus he brought the fawn back home.
Q. What did he find under the rock?
He hopes in vain that God will put money under the rock. He plays a game with God. But he finds no coins but a hairy worm under the rock.
Q. Why didn’t he eat all the Jalebis he had bought?
He did not eat all the jalebis he had bought because it was not possible for him to eath them all. He had eaten so too much of jalebis, if anybody pressed his stomach, jalebis would have popped out of his ears and nostrils.
Q. Did he get for rupees by playing the game what did he get to see under the rock?
No, he did not get four rupees by playing the game. When he lifted the rock, he saw a big hairy worm curling, twisting and wriggling towards him.
Q. What did the child feel like when he distributed the Jalebis?
Solution: He felt like Governor Saheb when he distributed the jalebis. “One rupee fetched more than _____ rupees does nowadays.” Solution: “One rupee fetched more than twenty rupees does nowadays.”
Q. What did the oldest coin tell him?
(i) The oldest coin said to him that they were trying to tell him something for his own good and he was trying to strangle them instead. He also said that he could pay his fees with his scholarship money. So he should enjoy sweets.