The Hindu School, founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy, David Hare and Radhakanta Deb, is indubitably one of the major cornerstones in the history of institutional education in Bengal. The college produced many avant garde philanthropists and educationists who were later to be active participants in the Bengal Renaissance movement.
The poem is in the form of a sonnet that eulogizes the contemporary youth. According to the speaker, the building blocks of the day function as the foundation tomorrow and hence have to moulded in the right direction. The students expand like the petals of a young flower in the practice of blooming. The metaphor of the flower connotes ideas of the prospects of blossoming coupled with a sense of freshness, rawness, emanating fragrance and essence, rendering the whole process natural. There is also the implication of a new vision or perspective. The poet watches the gentle opening of their minds as it gradually unfolds like the fragile petals of a flower. The difference between ‘look’ and ‘watch’ is that you look at a static object but you watch a kinetic object/frame. So, each movement of the students’ mind is studied by the poet Derozio, as he analyzes their progress.

They are all united in the awe and inspiration that education instills in them.…