Haryana State Board HBSE 8th Class English Solutions Honeydew Poem 5 The School Boy Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.
Haryana Board 8th Class English Solutions Honeydew Poem 5 The School Boy
HBSE 8th Class English The School Boy Textbook Questions and Answers
Working With The Poem
The School Boy Class 8 Poem HBSE Question 1.
Find three or four words/phrases in stanza-1 that reflect the child’s happiness and joy.
पहले पद्यांश में से तीन अथवा चार ऐसे शब्दों / वाक्यों को ढूढों जो कि बालक की खुशी और आनन्द को प्रदर्शित करते हैं।
Answer:
(i) I love to rise …..
(ii) …. sings with me.
(iii) O! what sweet company.
The School Boy Class 8 Summary In Hindi HBSE Question 2.
In stanza-2, the mood changes. Which words/phrases reflect the changed mood?
पद्यांश-2 में मनः स्थिति बदलती है। कौन से शब्दों/वाक्यांशों से बदली हुई मन:स्थिति झलकती है?
Answer:
(i) O! it drives all joy away.
(ii) In sighing and dismay.
The School Boy Poem Class 8 Summary HBSE 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 item that you consider right.
‘एक निर्दयी तीखी दृष्टी’ (पद्यांश 2) दर्शाती है:
(i) भद्दा/शोरभरा कक्षा-कक्ष
(ii) मुश्किल/रूचिहीन पाठ
(iii) अत्यधिक कार्य और खेल-विहीन धुंधला और प्रेरणा-विहीन विद्यालयी जीवन।
उस उत्तर को चिह्नित करें जिसे आप ठीक समझते हैं।
Answer:
The dull/uninspiring life at school with lots of work and no play.
Summary Of The Poem The School Boy HBSE 8th Class 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.
निम्न में से कौन सा उपरोक्त वाक्य का निकट अभिप्राय-वाक्यांश है?
Answer:
(ii) Nor can I learn anything at school though teachers go on lecturing and explaining.
School Boy Poem Summary HBSE 8th Class Question 5.
Read the following poem and compare it with The School Boy’.
निम्नलिखित कविता को पढ़ों और उसकी तुलना ‘विद्यालय का छात्र’ कविता से करो।
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 my back to go
To cattle and borrow,
field and plough:
To keep to the one furrow,
As I do now?
R. S. Thomas
Answer:
“The Shcool Boy” is a poem about a boy who considers his school-life dull and boring whereas the poem, “The One Furrow,” is an account of a person’s school-life as well as social life when he grows up.
The School Boy Poem Stanzas for Comprehension
Read the stanzas carefully and answer the questions that follow:
STANZA – 1
But to go the school in a summer mom,
O! it drives all joy away;
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day,
In sighing and dismay.
Questions:
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What does the child not like ?
(iii) Which phrase in the stanza shows this attitude of the child?
(iv) How does the child remain in the school?
(v) Which word in the stanza means the opposite of ‘freely’?
Answers:
(i) The name of the poem is ‘The School Boy’and the poet is ‘William Blake’.
(ii) The child does not like to go to school in a summer morning.
(iii) The phrase ‘O! it drives all joy away’ shows this.
(iv) The child remains under a cruel eye outworn in the school. He spends all his day there in sighing and dismay.
(v) Freely-dismay.
STANZA – 2
Ah! then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour.
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning’s bower,
Worn thro’ with the dreary shower.
Questions :
(i) Name the poem.
(ii) What does the child say about his attitude in the school?
(iii) What does the phrase ‘worn thro’ with the dreary shower’ mean?
(iv) Use the word ‘drooping’ in a sentence of your own.
Answers:
(i) The name of the poem is The School Boy’.
(ii) The child says that neither he is interested in his books nor in the boring lectures of his teachers.
(iii) The phrase means ‘to be tired with the dull and boring shower of continuous lecture over the child in the classroom’.
(iv) Drooping: T sat drooping at may failure in the competition.’
STANZA – 3
O! Father and Mother, if buds are nip’d,
And blossoms blown away,
And if the tender plants are strip’d
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and cares dismay,
Questions:
(i) Who is the poet of these lines?
(ii) Who are being questioned here?
(iii) What does the phrase‘plants are striped of their joy’ mean?
(iv) Give the meaning of‘nip’d’.
Answers:
(i) The poet of these lines is William Blake.
(ii) Father and Mother are being questioned here by the child.
(iii) The phrase means that the joy is taken away from the plants.
(iv) Nip’d! – to stop or destroy something at an early stage of its development.
The School Boy Poem Translation in Hindi
STANZA – 1
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me.
O! what sweet company.
Word Meaning : Winds to blow horn (फकक्कर बजाना), Horn = Kind of wind instrument, (भोंपा),Skylark = singing lark (चकोर), Distant -far away (सुदूर), Huntsman = Manager of pack of hounds (शिकारी कुत्तों का रक्षक), a person who hunts (शिकारी)।
मुझे गर्मियों की सुबह में उठना पसन्द है जब प्रत्येक वृक्ष पर पक्षी गातें हैं। दूर स्थित शिकारी कुत्तों के रक्षक की अपने भोंपे को फुककर बजाता है। और चकोर मेरे साथ गाता है। ओ! कितना मधुर संगति है।
STANZA – 2
But to go to the school in a summer morn,
O! it drives all joy away
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day, In sighing and dismay.
Word Meaning : Morn = morning (सुबह), Drives = disappears (गायब कर देना),Cruel = Unkind (निर्दयी), Outworn = to gaze with anger (पैनी, दृष्टि डालना), Sighing = to breathe in grief (आहें भरना), Dismay = to fill with fear (भयभीत)।
लेकिन ग्रीष्मकालं की किसी सुबह में विद्यालय जाना। ओ! यह सारी खुशी को गायब कर देता है। एक निर्दयी और तीखी दृष्टि की देखरेख में, छोटा बालक पूरा दिन आहें भरकर और भयभीत होकर गुजार देता है।
STANZA – 3
Ah! then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour.
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning’s bower,
Worn thro’ with the dreary shower.
Word Meaning : Drooping = to languish, (उदास होना),Anxious = restless (बेचैन), Delight – happiness (खुशी), Bower = arbour, (कुंज), Dreary – Dull (निरानन्द), Shower = (here) continuous lecture (निरंतर भाषण)।
आह। तब मैं समय-समय पर उदास होकर बैठ जाता हूँ और बहुत से बेचैनी भरे समय,गुजारता हूँ। ना मुझे अपनी पुस्तक में आनंद मिलता है और ना ही शिक्षा के कुंज में बैठकर निरानन्द सी बौछार (लेक्यर) के द्वारा बेहाल होने में।
STANZA – 4
How can the bird that is born for joy,
Sit in a cage and sing.
How can a child when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring.
Word Meaning : Joy = happiness, (खुशी), Annoy = to tease (तंग करना), Tender = soft (नाजुक)।
पक्षी जिसका जन्म आनंद मनाने के लिए हुआ है, वह किस प्रकार पिंजरे में बैठकर गीत गा सकता है। और किस प्रकार एक बालक जो तंग करने (शरारतें करने) से डरता हो खुश रह सकता है। बल्कि वह अपने पंखों को उदासी से गिरा देता है और अपने युवावस्था के बंसत को भुला देता है।
STANZA – 5
O! Father and Mother, if buds are nip’d,
And blossoms blown away,
And if the tender plants are strip’d
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care dismay,
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
Word Meaning : Buds = first leaf (कलियाँ). Nip’d = to destroy something at an early stage of its development (प्रारंभिक अवस्था में समाप्त करना). Strip’d = to deprive of covering (कवच-विहीन)।
ओ! पापा और मम्मी, यदि कलियों को तोड़ ली जाए और फूलों को गिरा दिया जाए और यदि कोमल पौधे सुरक्षा कवच से वंचित है तो बसंत के दिन की उनकी खुशी भी दुख और डर की परवाह में बदल जाती है।
किस प्रकार गर्मियों की शुरूआत खुशी से होगी और किस तरह गर्मियों के फल उत्पन्न हो सकेंगें?
The School Boy Poem Summary in English
This poem is about a school boy who is not at all happy. The routine environment at school makes him unhappy. He compares himself to a cage bird. He finds himself imprisoned in classroom and spends his day there in sighing and dismay. He can’t concentrate in his books. He further compares himself to a plant that withers when it should blossom in Spring season. He has a question for his parents how shall other seasons (freedom) give happiness to him when he is not allowed to do something creative in a particular season (school-time).
The School Boy Poem Summary in Hindi
यह कविता एक विद्यालय छात्र के विषय में है जो बिल्कुल ही खुश नही है। विद्यालय के नियमित वातावरण उसे उदास कर देता है। वह स्वयं की तुलना एक पिंजरे की पक्षी से करता है। वह स्वयं को कक्षा में बंदी पाता है और अपना पूरा दिन वहाँ आहें भरकर
और निराशा में बिताता है। वह अपनी पुस्तकों में ध्यान नहीं लगा पाता। इसके अतिरिक्त, वह स्वयं को एक ऐसे पौधे से तुलना करता है नो उस समय मुरझा जाता है जबकि उसे बंसत के मौसम में खिलना चाहिए। उसका अपने माता-पिता से प्रश्न है कि अन्य मौसम (स्वतन्त्रता) उसे खुशी कैसे प्रदान कर सकते हैं जबकि उसे किसी विशेष मौसम (विद्यालय का समय) में कुछ रचनात्मक करने की इजाजत नहीं है।
Introduction:
The school boy in the poem is not a happy child. What makes him unhappy? Why does he compare himself to a bird that lives in a cage, or a plant that withers when it should blossom.
प्रस्तावना:
कविता में विद्यालय का छात्र एक खुश बालक नहीं है। क्या उसे उदास बनाता है? वह स्वयं की तुलना ऐसे पक्षी से जो कि पिंजरे में रहता है या ऐसे पौधे से जो कि मुरझा जाता है जबकि उसे खिलना चाहिए, से क्यों करता है।