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Question 1 1. What do the following phrases mean to you? Discuss in class. (i) Humid shadows (ii) Starry spheres (iii) What a bliss (iv) A thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start (v) A thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof 2. What does the poet like to do when it rains? 3. What is the single major memory that comes to the poet? Who are the “darling dreamers” he refers to? 4. Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?

Class 9 - English - Rain on the Roof (Poem) Page 42

Answer 1

i) Humid clouds - dark clouds that produce rain.

ii)Starry sky - night shy which abound with stars.

iii) What a bliss - referring to the happiness of the poet.

iv) A thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start - various imaginary fantasies that are aroused in the poet's mind.

v) A thousand recollections weave their air threads into woof - numerous memories intermingle to form a beautiful picture which the poet recollects.

2.When it rains,the poet feels delighted to lie with his head pressed against the pillow of his cottage chamber bed and listen to the noise of the patter of the soft rain.

3.The single major memory that comes to the poet's mind is of his mother and her fond look.
The poet and his siblings in their childhood when they are put to sleep by their mother are referred to as the darling dreamers.

4. No,the poet is not a child now but a grown up man.I don't think that his mother is alive as he has reminiscences of her and gets reminded of her from the patter of the soft rain.

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