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NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse

July 24, 2021 by Murali

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse are part of NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English. Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse.

Board CBSE
Textbook NCERT
Class Class 8
Subject English Honeydew (poem)
Chapter Chapter 7
Chapter Name When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
Category NCERT Solutions

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew (Poem) Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse

STANZAS FOR COMPREHENSION

I When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray ;
And starlight lit my lonesomeness (Page 109)
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Q1.1
Paraphrase. The poet started for Lyonnesse which was a hundred miles away. It was very cold then. The leaves were covered with frost. It was a lonely journey in the light of stars alone.

Multiple Choice Questions
1. Lyonnesse is
(a) a beautiful river
(b) a beautiful hill
(c) a country in the legends
(d) an imaginary name.

2. The poet of the poem is
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) R.N. Tagore
(c) Edward Lear
(d) William Blake.

3. The leaves were covered by
(a) ice
(b) frost
(c) dust
(d) dirt.

4. The poet felt
(a) happy
(b) angry
(c) depressed
(d) excited.

Answers
1. (c) a country in the legends
2. (a) Thomas Hardy
3. (b) frost
4. (c) depressed

II When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there, (Page 109)
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Q1.2
Paraphrase. Hardy set out for Lyonnesse. It was a place a hundred miles away. When the poet started his journey, nobody could predict the happenings during his stay there.

Questions
1. What was the poet thinking of ?
2. Where was the poet going to stay ?
3. What was the poet’s thought while going there ?
4. Find a word in the passage which means the same as ‘happen’.

Answers
1. The poet was thinking of the events that might happen at Lyonnesse during his visit there.
2. The poet was going to stay at Lyonnesse.
3. The poet was thinking of the chance happenings at Lyonnesse.
4. bechance.

III No prophet durst declare ;
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there. (Page 109)
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Q1.3
Paraphrase. During the poet’s stay at that church something happened there. It was however something which no one had expected. A prophet could not have predicted it nor a magician could have guessed it.

Multiple Choice Questions
1. No one could predict
(a) what might happen tomorrow
(b) how the wizard would act
(c) what might happen at Lyonnesse
(d) what had happened earlier.

2. The poet was going to
(a) meet a wise man
(b) a wizard’s house
(c) stay at Lyonnesse
(d) declare like a prophet.

3. A wizard is
(a) a clever person
(b) a magician
(c) a learned man
(d) a fearful person.

4. The word ‘sojourn’ means the same as
(a) silence
(b) shake
(c) solar
(d) stay.

Answers
1. (c) what might happen at Lyonnesse
2. (c) stay at Lyonnesse
3. (b) a magician
4. (d) stay

IV When I returned from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I returned from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes. (page 109)
NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Honeydew Poem Chapter 7 When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Q1.4
Paraphrase. When the poet returned from the church, there was a glamour in his eyes. All the people silently marked this rare glow and bottomless depth in his eyes. This happened as he returned after supervising the restoration of the church from Lyonnesse with charming eyes.

Questions
1. What is Lyonnesse ?
2. Why was there ‘magic’ in his eyes ?
3. What was the reaction of the people when they saw him on his return ?
4. Which word in the passage means ‘glow’ ?

Answers
1. Lyonnesse is a country mentioned in Arthurian legends. This was located in South West England and is supposed to have been submerged in the sea.
2. There was deep radiance in his eyes which made his eyes enchanting. People thought that there was magic.
3. The people were dumbfounded when they looked into his eyes. They saw in them a rare glow. This glow seemed fathomless.
4. ‘radiance’.

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS

WORKING WITH THE POEM (Page 110)

Question 1.
In the first stanza, find words that show
(i) that it was very cold.
(ii) that it was late evening.
(iii) that the traveller was alone.

Answer.
(i) The word ‘rime’ shows that it was very cold.
(ii) The word ‘starlight’ shows that it was late evening.
(iii) The word ‘lonesomeness’ shows that the traveller was alone.

Question 2.
(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
(а) improbable.
(b) impossible.
(c) unforeseeable.
(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.

Answer.
(i) (c) unforeseeable
(ii) The relevant lines are :
No prophet durst declare
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse

Question 3.
(i) Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following :
‘Everyone noticed something, and they made
guesses, but didn’t speak a word’.
(ii) Now read the line that refers to what they noticed.

Answer:
(i) “All marked with mute surmise”.
(ii) “My radiance rare and fathomless”.

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