The School Boy Poem Honeydew English Class 8

byMr. Chandan

 NCERT Solution : The School Boy Poem English Class 8 Honeydew

Working with the Poem

1. Find three or four words / Phrases in stanza 1 that reflect the child's happiness and joy.
Answer:
The word/phrases that reflect the child's happiness are the song of birds and the skylark, and the sound of hunter's horn.

2. In stanza 2, the mood changes. Which word/phrases reflect the changed mood ?
Answer:
The word/phrases reflecting the child's mood are :
  • drives all joy away
  • cruel eye outworn (of the teacher)
  • sighing and dismay
3. 'A cruel eye outworn' (stanza 2) refers to
  • the classroom which is shabby/noisy.
  • the lessons which are difficult / uninteresting.
  • the dull / uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.
Mark the answer that you consider right.
Answer:
the dull/uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.

4. 'Nor sit in learning's bower
worn thro' with the dreary shower'
Which of the following is a close paraphrase of the lines above ?
(i) Nor can I sit in a roofless classroom when it is raining.
(ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.
(iii) Nor can I sit in the school garden for fear of getting wet in the rain.
Answer:
(ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and eplaining.

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