8th class-cbse english (honey dew) (Poem) Poem -5 (The school boy) (William Blake)

Answer following questions in short.

Q1) What ‘A cruel eye outworn’ refers to?

Ans1) It refers to the dull and uninteresting life at school with lots of work and no play.

Q2) What does the child not like?

Ans2) The child does not like to go to school in a summer morning.

Q3) How does the child remain in the school?

Ans3). The child remains in the school joylessly.

Q4) What does the child say about his attitude in the school?

Ans4) The child was neither interested in his books nor in the boring lectures of his teachers.

Q5) What does the phrase ‘worn thro’ with the dreary shower’ mean?

Ans5) The phrase mean ‘to be tired with the dull and boring shower of continuous lectures of teachers over the child.

Q6) Who are being questioned here?

Ans6) Father and mother are being questioned here by the child.

Q7) What does the phrase ‘plants are striped of their joy’ mean?

Ans7) The phrase means that the joy is taken away from the children.