Tiêu đề 3 Rain On The Roof.pdf ✅

Rain On The Roof I. ANNOTATION WITH COMPREHENSION OUESTIONS Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow each: 1. When the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage-chamber bed And lie listening to the patter Of the rain overhead! (Page 41) (Imp.) Questions (a) How does the darkness look? What does it do? (b) What happens to the pillow when it rains? (c) When does the poet feel ‘bliss’? Answers (a) It looks sad. It gently weeps in rainy tears. (b) It gets wet. (c) The poet feels it in hearing the sound of the falling rain and pressing the wet pillow. 2. Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart; And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start, And a thousand recollections Weave their air-threads into woof, As I listen to the patter Of the rain upon the roof. (Page 41) (V.Imp.) Question (a) What does a ‘tinkle’ do? (b) What happens when a tinkle echoes in the heart? (c) What do recollects do? (d) When do all these things happen?
Answers (a) It creates an echo in the heart. (b) A thousand dreamy fanices are created in the heart. (c) Then create a woof of air-threads. (d) When the poet listens to the pattering sound of rain. 3. Now in memory comes my mother, As she used in years agone. To regard the darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn: Questions (a) When does the poet’s mother come in his memory ? (b) How did the poet’s mother treat the dreamers? (c) Who are the darling dreamers? Answers (a) When he listens to the sound caused by the falling of the rain. (b) She treated them with respect. (c) The darling dreamers are the fancies of the poet’s mother. 4. O! I feel her fond look on me As I list to this refrain Which is played upon the shingles By the patter of the rain (Page 41) Questions (a) Whose ‘fond look’ is it that the poet feels? (b) How is the ‘refrain’ created? (c) How does the poet feel the ‘bliss’ of his mother? Answers. (a) It is of his mother. (b) It is created by the rain falling on the shingles. (c) He feels it through the ‘bliss’ caused by the falling of the rain. II. Textual questions
I. 1. What do the following phrases means 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 rgousand recollections weave their air- threads in to woof 2. What does the poet like to do when trains? 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? Answers 1. (I) Humid shadows - Shadows of various things which are wet during the rainy season (ii) Starry spheres - Star areas or group of stars in sky (iii) What a bliss - It is a great bliss. (iv) A thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start - thousands of dream- like fancies due to the falling of the rain. (v) A thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof – When it rains, hundreds of memeories comes to the poet’s mind. They then weave a weft with the help of air thteads. 2. The poet likes to feel the presence of his mother. It is a bliss for him. 3. The poet’s mother is the single major memory that comes to the poet. ‘Darling dreamers’ are those ‘children’ who dream of their mothers like the poet. 4. The poet is not a child but is grown-up. His mother is not alive. But he still remembers her much. II . 1. When you were a young child, did your mother tuck you in, as the poet’s did? 2. Do you like rain? What do you do when it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem? 3. Does everybody have a cosy bed to lie in when it rains? Look around you and describe how different kinds of people or animals spend time, seek shelter etc. during rain. Answers
1. Yes, I remember my mother used to tuck me in when I was a child .Whenver I said that I couldn’t walk, she would lift me in her lap and carry me. She used to be worried whenever something happened to me. 2. Yes, I greatly like the rain when it is light. But when it rains steadily or heavily, I do not go in it. It is very pleasant to get drenched in rain during summer. 3. Not all have a cosy bed to lie in when it rains. However, the number of persons having such a comfort is increasing. I have seen many persons enjoying rainy season by eating ‘hot pakoras’. Various animals are caught in the rain. Many of them keep standing in it. But many go under a cover. People do not go out on the roads when it rains. They stand and wait for it to stop. Rains do bring in some problems. These check people’s activities. III. SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS Q1. How does the poet describe the moment just before it starts raining? Ans. Just before it starts raining , the dark wet shadows of clouds hover over the sky. The stars become spheres. They are covered under these clouds. The darkness looks sad. Then it starts raining. Q2. How does the poet find it’ a bliss’ to feel when it rains? Ans. When it rains the poet finds it ‘a bliss’ to press the pillow in a cottage room bed. One gets great pleasure to lie listening to the pattering sound of the soft rain. Seeing the rain is always pleasant. However, too much rain causes many problems. Q3. What thoughts flash through the poet’s mind when it rains? (Imp.) Ans. When it rains , the thinkle has an echo in the poet’s heart. He experiences many dreamy fancies in his heart. His heart is filled with a thousand memories. These memories are like a weft of a cloth to be woven. Q4. When does the poet remember his mother? How does he do so? (V.Imp.) Ans. The poet remembers his mother when he listens to the patter of the rain on the roof. She used to dream sweet fancies bduring the night . He feels her fond look on him as he listens to the music of the rain falling on the small stones. Q5. What does the poet dream of when he listens to the patter of the rain? (M.Imp.) Ans. The poet fancies about his mother when he listens to the patter of the rain on the roof. He feels how she loved sweet dreams during the night till the dawn. The rain makes the poet remember his mother.