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

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English

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

The School Boy NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

The School Boy 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/phrases in stanza 1 that reflect the child’s happiness and joy are ‘love to rise in a summer mom’, ‘the skylark sings with me’ and ‘O! what sweet company’.

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

Question 2.
In stanza 2, the mood changes. Which words/phrases reflect the changed mood?
Answer:
The words/phrases that reflect the changed mood are ‘O! it drives all joy away’, ‘Under a cruel eye outworn,’ and ‘The little ones spend the day, 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.
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.

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

Read the following poem and compare it with The School Boy.

The One Furrow
When I was young, I went to school
With pencil and footrule
Sponge and slate,
And sat on a tall stool
At learning’s gate.
When I was older, the gate swung wide;
Clever and keen-eyed
In I pressed,
But found in the mind’s pride
No peace, no rest.
Then who was it taught me back to go
To cattle and barrow,
Field and plough:
To keep to the one furrow,
As I do now?

The poem The School Boy is about a school boy who does not like to go to school. He wants to enjoy the summer morning listening to the sweet birds. He finds school dull and uninteresting. He feels like a bird in a cage, listening to the boring school lessons. He thinks that he is not getting a chance to blossom, and is being nipped in the bud because of all the sorrow he gets by going to school.

On the other hand, the poem ‘The One Furrow’ is about a small boy who seems to like attending school. He would carry his ruler, pencil and slate under his arm and make way for school readily.

But as he grew up, he was unable to find the same peace of mind at school that he used to. This is why he went back to farming and to nature. It is in his farm that he found peace and rest.

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