The boy’s description of his adventures, ‘The cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo, And the sun did shine so cold’, fittingly illustrates Wordsworth’s intention of giving the charm of novelty to things of everyday’. It shows a mother’s love and cares not only for her child but also for her sick neighbor. This poem, like many in Lyrical Ballads, concerns itself with the psychological insight of the mother, showing her clear concern for the child she values. It is a poem illustrating common emotions in a rural setting. Each of the five-lined, stanzas features a rime scheme of ABCCB, with the exception of the first stanza, with its six lines and rime scheme of ABCCDB, and the last stanza, consisting of seven lines, with the rime scheme ABCCBDD. William Wordsworth’s “The Idiot Boy” contains 453 lines.
The neighbour recovers and sets out to meet mother and son, and all three are happily reunited. So Betty leaves and continues looking for the boy and finds him at last by a waterfall, whither the pony has dered freely through the moonlight, to the boy’s delight. She even wakes up the doctor to find out if Johnny has been there, but the doctor has not seen the boy. So Betty finally decides she has no choice but to go look for her son. He is so long gone that his mother becomes anxious. So he is sent off on horseback by night to fetch the doctor. Betty’s husband, however, is not at home therefore, no one can go for a doctor, except for her retarded son, Johnny. Betty’s friend and neighbor, Susan Galen, seems to be gravely ill and thus is in great need of a doctor. This poem is mainly about the idiot son of a poor countrywoman, Betty Foy.
“The Idiot Boy ” is a poem by William Wordsworth, first published in Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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