NCERT Solution for Class 8 English Poem The School Boy

NCERT Solution for Class 8 English Poem The School Boy

Question 1:

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

Question 2:
In stanza 2, the mood changes. Which words/phrases reflect the changed mood?
Answer:
The words/phrases reflecting the child’s mood are:

(a) drives all joy away
(b) cruel eye outworn (of the Teacher)
(c) 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.