Pl. 11 – 학동
1789
William Blake hated the idea of children being cooped up in classrooms, and this page proves it! The poem 'The School Boy' complains that going to school on a beautiful summer morning 'drives all joy away,' comparing a student to a bird trapped in a cage. The text is framed by twisting vines and leaves, with a figure climbing the trellis on the right, while three children sit at the bottom, seemingly enjoying the very freedom the poem describes. Blake created these 'illuminated books' using a special etching technique he invented, hand-coloring each page so no two copies are exactly alike.
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