NCERT Solution : When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Poem English Honeydew Class 8
Working with the poem
1. In the first stanza, find words that show
(i) that it was very cold.
(ii) that it was late evening.
(iii) that the traveller was alone.
Answer:
The word "rime" shows that it was very cold.
2. (i) Something happened at Lyonnesse . It was
(a) improbable
(b) impossible
(c) unforeseeable
(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.
Answer:
(i) (c) unforeseeable
(ii) The relevant lines are :
No porphet durst declare
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would be chance at lyonnesse
3. (i) Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following .
'Everyone noticed something, and they made
guesses , but didn't speak a word'.
(ii) Now read the line that refers to what they noticed,
Answer:
(i) 'all marked with mute surmise'.
(ii) 'My radiance rare and fathomless'.
NCERT Solution of Other Chapters :-
- Chapter 1 : The Best Christmas Present in the World
- Poem : The Ant the Cricket
- Chapter 2 : The Tsunami
- Poem : Geography Lesson
- Chapter 3 : Glimpses of the Past
- Poem : Macavity : The Mystery Cat
- Chapter 4 : Bepin Choudhury's Lapse of Memory
- Poem : The Last Bargain
- Chapter 5 : The Summit within
- Poem : The School Boy
- Chapter 6 : This is Jody's Fawn
- Chapter 7 : A Visit to Cambridge
- Poem : When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
- Chapter 8 : A Short Monsoon Diary
- Poem : On the Grasshopper and Cricket
- Chapter 9 : The Great Stone Face - I
- Chapter 10 - The Great Stone Face - II