A boy’s song |RBSE Class 12
About the poem
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was Gibson was born at Hexham in England in 1878. He was a good friend of the famous poet Rupert Brooke. The poem ‘A Boy’s Songs‘ appeared in his first verse called ‘Mountain Cover’ , brought out in 1902. Gibson died in 1962.
The poem is about nature’s precious gift of freedom to all its inhabitants. Like men birds are also important manifestations of life that add to the beauty of nature expanses of the limitless sky. The poem expresses the poet’s feelings of intense joy which spring from his realization that all birds uncaged and free to fly from place to place, from the green trees to the bright skies belong to him because he does not set traps and cags them. The poet successfully establishes an emotional bond with the birds and thus shows a tendency towards empathy.