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NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Chapter 5 The School Boy Poem

Last Updated on June 27, 2024 By Mrs Shilpi Nagpal

Chapter 3 The School Boy Poem
Question and Answers
Class 8 – English – Honeydew

Class Class 8
Subject English
Book Name Honeydew
Chapter Name The School Boy
Category Class 8 English NCERT Solutions

Working with the Poem

Question 1 Find three or four words/phrases in stanza 1 that reflect the child’s happiness and joy.

Answer The words or phrases in stanza 1 that reflect the child’s happiness and joy are “love to rise in a summer morn”, “birds sing on every tree”, “distant huntsman winds his horn”, “the skylark sings with me” and “sweet company”

Question 2 In stanza 2, the mood changes. Which words/phrases reflect the changed mood?

Answer The words or phrases reflect the changed mood are “it drives all joy away”, “a cruel eye outworn”, and “in sighing and dismay”.

Question 3 ‘A cruel eye outworn’ (stanza 2) refers to

(i) the classroom which is shabby/noisy.

(ii) the lessons which are difficult/uninteresting.

(iii) the dull/uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play. Mark the answer that you consider right.

Answer (iii) the dull/uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.

Question 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 explaining.

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