Jharkhand Board Class 8 English Notes | The Land of Story Books
JAC Board Solution For Class 8TH English Chapter 10
(कहानियों की किताबों की दुनिया)
कविता का हिन्दी अनुवाद
"At evening when ......land of story- books." [Page 62]
भावार्थ: प्रस्तुत कविता 'द लैण्ड ऑफ स्टोरी-बुक्स' के कवि
स्कॉटिश कवि और उपन्यासकार और यात्रा वृत्तांत लेखक रॉबर्ट लुइस बाफर
स्टीवेन्स हैं। प्रस्तुत कविता ने कवि ने बाल मन को उकेरा है।
कवि जब बालक था तो देखा करता-शाम होते लैम्प जल जाते, आग
के चारों ओर बैठ उसके माता-पिता बस आग सेंकते। वे घर में रहते, बातें
करते और गाना गाते थे। लेकिन कुछ खेल नहीं खेलते थे।
बालकों को तो खेल चाहिए पर कोई खेलने वाला भी तो होना चाहिए ।
पर अकेला बालक कहाँ-कहाँ जाए किनको खेल-सखा बनाए ।
बस उस बालक ने कहानियों की किताबों को ही अपना साथी बना
लिया। और फिर क्या था, कहानियों की किताबों की रोचक, रूमानी दुनिया
में डूब गया वह बालक ।
कहानियों को पढ़ते अपनी कल्पना में कभी पार्क पहुँच जाता, कभी
जंगल में, कभी तारों के संग बातें, अकेले में समय बिताता, कभी नदी के
किनारे, कभी समुद्र के तट पर चला जाता है। अपनी कल्पना में थक जाता
तो बिस्तर पर सो जाता। पास में होती कहानी की किताबें ।
WORD MEANING
Crawl (क्रॉल) = रेंगना Track (ट्रैक)= रास्ता । Spy (स्पाई)=
जासूस । Brink (ब्रिक) = किनारा | Starry solitudes (स्टॉरी
सॉलिट्यूड्स)= तारों के साथ एकांत। Prowled (प्राउल्ड)= इधर-उधर
घूमना । Lit (लिट)= जला हुआ । Land (लैंड) = देश, भूमि ।
Explore the Poem
□ Tick the correct option:
1. What does the poet do when his parents sit and talk
in the evening?
(i) He gots to camp.
(ii) He reads story books.
Ans. (ii)
2. Why does the child crawl against the wall?
(i) So that no one can see him.
(ii) Because he wants to steal the gun.
Ans. (i)
3. Where does the child lie so that no one can see him?
(i) behind the camp
(ii) behind the sofa back
Ans. (i)
4. How long does the child stay in the land of
storybooks?
(i) till it is time to play
(ii) till it is time to go to sleep
Ans. (ii)
5. Which line in the poem suggest the child's love for
storybooks?
(i) Home I return across the seas
(ii) and go to bed with backward looks
Ans. (ii)
□ Answer the following questions:
Q. 1. Who sits around the fireplace in the evening?
Ans. The poet's parents sit around the fireplace in the
evening.
Q. 2. What does the poct imagine the place behind the
sofaback to be?
Ans. The poet imagines the place behind the sofa back to
be the forest track.
Q. 3. Describe the things the poet talks about in the 4th
stanza.
Ans. The thing the poet talks about in the 4th stanza is are
the hills, woods, river and roaring lions.
Q.4. What does the poet do when his mother comes into
put him to sleep?
Ans. The poet goes to the bed with backward looks at his
dear land of story books.
Word Power
Q. Fill in the blanks with suitable words to complete the
summary of the poem :
The child extremely fond ofand story books. Arvening
time, when hisparents sit around thdfire and talk, he crawls
behind thesofa and imagines the place to be a hunter'scamp.
He thinks of all thobook he has read and imagines himself to
be in one such land of adventure. He imagines himself to being
Indianscout. He imagineshill andwoods and roaringlion
that come to the river bank to drink water. But he needs to
return from his land of imagination when hismother comes in
to wish him good night.
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