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"The School Boy" is a poem written in the pastoral tradition that focuses on the downsides of formal learning. It considers how going to school on a summer day "drives all joy away". [3] The boy in this poem is more interested in escaping his classroom than he is with anything his teacher is trying to teach.
The poem is prominently referenced in Interstellar (2014), where the poem is used repeatedly by Michael Caine's character John Brand, as well as by several other supporting characters. [21] Additionally, the poem features in the plot of the films Back to School (1986) and Dangerous Minds (1995).
The School Master's joy is a flog. The Milkmaid's delight is a May day, But mine is on sweet Molly Mog. Will of wisp leaves the traveller gadding Through ditch and through quagmire and bog. But no light can set me a-madding Like the eyes of my sweet Molly Mog. For guineas in other men's breeches Your gamester will palm and will cog,
You pay your money and you take your choice; Youth is wasted on the young; You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb; You must have rocks in your head; You scratch my back and I will scratch yours; You only live once. You'll never get if you never go; You're never fully dressed without a smile
Michael. A Pastoral Poem: 1800 "If from the public way you turn your steps" Poems founded on the Affections. 1800 The Idle Shepherd-boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force. 1800 A Pastoral "The valley rings with mirth and joy;" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1800 The Pet-lamb 1800 A Pastoral "The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;"
In the second stanza, Blake gradually goes on to the "grasshopper" and "Mary and Susan and Emily," the children who will also join in the singing of the "Ha, Ha, He." The children and grasshopper also reiterate the idea of innocence and joy. Repetition of the words "merry" and "laughs/laughing" also emphasises the overall tone of the poem.
“The first thing you have to do is take your own pulse, take a deep breath,” Gazaway said. In his head, he repeated this one thought: I haven’t done anything wrong. But he was treating 10 addicts more than the law allowed. The agents questioned him for 45 minutes about his practice, and about patient files they had randomly selected.
As the poem ends, the trance caused by the nightingale is broken and the narrator is left wondering if it was a real vision or just a dream. [24] The poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to Keats's poems, and "Ode to a Nightingale" shares many of the same themes as Keats' Sleep and Poetry and Eve of St. Agnes. This further ...