NCERT Class 7th Poem - The Shed by Frank Flynn - Summary

The narrator, a child describes a shed at the corner of his garden. He is afraid to go into it. He can hear the creaking of its rusted door hinges while from being laid in his bedroom. Also he saw spider webs on the door. He resolves to open that door one day and conquers his fears.

The window pane of the shed has three crack on its glass. When he walks past the shed, he fears that someone stares at him from the inside.

His brother, taking advantage of his fear of the shed, tells him that a ghost lives underneath the floor of the shed. He cautions the narrator against entering the shed because if he does so, a ghost will chop his head off.

But the narrator dispels this ghost theory, owing it to his brother's plan to keep it as his own place. He himself refutes his own misconceptions about it.

He plans to go into the shed, some day, but not at the present time. This shows that he is still afraid of the unknown contents of the shed.