Comments on: “The Schoolboy”- A Summer Poem by William Blake https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-schoolboy-by-william-blake/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-schoolboy-by-william-blake/#comment-20912 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:35:47 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=221#comment-20912 In reply to Dirk Radloff.

Thank you for commenting, Dirk. I enjoyed listening to clips of your music.

]]> By: Dirk Radloff https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-schoolboy-by-william-blake/#comment-20911 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:09:17 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=221#comment-20911 This poem is praising the freedom of children and a free education. The child should enjoy his own life without suppression of teachers and parents and follow a natural way of development. So in my opinion Blake is blowing here the trumpet of Rousseau. By the way I have respectfully tried to set this poem to music, some kind of progressive rock.

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