The Schoolboy -class 8

Who is the poet of the poem “The School Boy”?

• William Blake

• Thomas Wilde

• Rabindranath Tagore

• T.S. Eliot

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.

Who does ‘I’ refer to in the above stanza?

• The morning sunshine

• The huntsman

• The schoolboy

• The birds

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.

The birds sing in?

• summer

• winter

• rainy season

• autumn

b.

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.

What does the word 'winds' means in the above lines?

• air

• sounds by blowing of horn

• fans

• songs

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.

At times the school boy sits drooping because

• he is always unhappy

• he does not want to study

• the atmosphere in his class is not good due to the strict teacher and rigid education system.

• he has dropped something

He cannot take delight in his books because...

• he is attracted towards nature

• he is dull

• he doesn’t like to study

• None of the above

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.

The phrase ‘tender plants’ refers to

• the young plants

• the young birds

• the young children

• the tender buds

But to go to 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.

Whose cruel eye is being referred to ?

• of the school boy

• of the birds

• of the huntsman

• of the strict teacher

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.

Who is being compared to a caged bird ?

• the birds are stuck in a cage

• child in school is being compared to a caged bird

• the teacher is stuck in a cage

• the huntsmen are stuck in a cage

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.

What is the rhyme scheme in the above stanza?

• abaccb

• ababab

• ababb

• abcbaa