it means a person who doesn't attend the places he's supposed to so basically in the poem the boy is bunking and btw dunce means stupid as in the teachers call him stupid he's a very practical person who loves nature and understands it very well he rather have hands on lessons
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Neville Giuseppi is a Poet. One of his poems is called, "The Truant". It's about a boy who's a truant, and he likes to skip school and isn't ashamed of saying so.
Here are some that I found on Wikipedia's Narrative poetry page:The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres by Richard AdamsAutobiography of Red by Anne Carson"The Ballad Of Charlotte Dymond" by Charles CausleyThe Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord TennysonCrank by Ellen HopkinsCrossing America by Leo ConnellanThe Divine Comedy by DanteDon Juanby Lord ByronThe Eve of St. Agnes by John KeatsCantar de Mio Cid, (anonymous) medieval epicThe Elder Edda (anonymous)The Homeric Epics (Iliad, Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymns)The Epic of GilgameshThe Hunting of the Snark by Lewis CarrollThe Kalevala (the Finish national epic)Lamia by John Keats"The Highwayman" by Alfred NoyesThe Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien.Os Lusíadas (Portugal's national epic by Luís Vaz de Camões)The Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserVirgil's AeneidThe Laidly Wyrm of Spindleston Heugh by Josie WhiteheadStatius' ThebaidThe Prelude by William WordsworthPan Tadeusz by Adam MickiewiczPiers Plowman by William LanglandThe Rape of Lucrece by William ShakespeareEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinThe Ravenby Edgar Allan PoeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Ring and the Book by Robert BrowningThe Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTam Lin(anonymous)Tam o' Shanter, by Robert BurnsThe Truant by E.J. PrattTerje Vigen by Henrik IbsenThe Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis CarrollOut, Out-by Robert FrostDust by Carlo BordiniThe Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey
"Flower School" uses the actions of flowers to show how regimented a child's life can be and how the child yearns for freedom and independence.
Truant.
Habitual truant is someone who is habitually truant.
See Truant
The possessive form of the noun truant is truant's.Example: This truant's record is full of trouble.
Johnny Truant ended in 2008.
Johnny Truant was created in 2002.
The abstract noun for truant is truancy.
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk., Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy., To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant., To idle away; to waste.
a truant is someone who stay away from school without permission. a truant is someone who stay away from school without permission.
The word 'truant' may be used as a verb. Although, some people view this as incorrect usage and recommend 'to play truant'.
Truant Wave was created on 2011-02-22.
Mitching (playing truant from school) probably originated in the Old French muchier, meaning 'hide, lurk'.