NCERT Solutions for 8th Class English (Poem): Chapter 5- School Boy
NCERT Solutions for 8th Class English (Poem): Chapter 5- School Boy

Class 8: English (Poem) Chapter 5 solutions. Complete Class 8 English (Poem) Chapter 5 Notes.

NCERT Solutions for 8th Class English (Poem): Chapter 5- School Boy

NCERT 8th English (Poem) Chapter 5, class 8 English (Poem) Chapter 5 solutions

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Working with Poem

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

Answer

The phrases that reflect the child’s joy and happiness are ‘love to rise in a summer morn’, ‘birds sing on every tree’, ‘the skylark sings with me’, and ‘sweet company’.

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

Answer

The phrases that reflect the changed mood are ‘it drives all joy away’ and ‘spend the day in sighing and dismay’.

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.

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.
► (ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.

NCERT 8th English (Poem) Chapter 5, class 8 English (Poem) Chapter 5 solutions

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Chapterwise Class 8 English Honeydew Prose

Chapter 1 The Best Christmas Present in the World
Chapter 2 The Tsunami
Chapter 3 Glimpses of the Past
Chapter 4 Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
Chapter 5 The Summit Within
Chapter 6 This is Jody’s Fawn
Chapter 7 A Visit to Cambridge
Chapter 8 A Short Monsoon Diary
Chapter 9 The Great Stone Face 1
Chapter 10 The Great Stone Face 2

Chapterwise Class 8 English Honeydew Poem

Poem 1 The Ant and the Cricket
Poem 2 Geography Lesson
Poem 3 Macavity The Mystery Cat
Poem 4 The Last Bargain
Poem 5 The School Boy
Poem 6 The Duck and the Kangaroo
Poem 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
Poem 8 On the Grasshopper and Cricket

Chapterwise Class 8 English It So Happened

Chapter 1 How the Camel Got His Hump
Chapter 2 Children at Work
Chapter 3 The Selfish Giant
Chapter 4 The Treasure Within
Chapter 5 Princess September
Chapter 6 The Fight
Chapter 7 The Open Window
Chapter 8 Jalebis
Chapter 9 The Comet 1
Chapter 10 The Comet 2
Chapter 11 Ancient Education System of India


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