Analysing ideas of youth and nature in Blake’s ‘The Schoolboy’
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I can analyse Blake’s use of language and structure in his poem ‘The Schoolboy’.
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Arguably, Blake uses metaphors of seasonal change to represent childhood passing.
Blake uses the language of imprisonment and restriction to critique oppressive institutions.
The language of “cage” and “nip’d” could represent how institutional education creates restrictions.
The alternating use of “I” and “the child” could represent how institutional education removes individuality.
The regularity of the poem could reflect how monotonous Blake felt institutional education was.
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