CBSE Class 9 English Rain on the Roof Worksheet Set B

 

 

The poem ‘Rain on the Roof’ reveals the healing power of nature, rain especially when heard from a cozy bed in a lovely cottage. It is pleasant to live and sleep snugly in a cottage on a rainy night. In the second stanza, the tingle of the rain brings dreamy fancies with bright hues of recollection. In the third stanza, the fondest memory of his mother is stirred before him in all her gentle loveliness by the matter of the rain. Next in the fifth stanza, comes the bright hued recollection of his sister and brother who died young and transcended to the state of angels. The conflict occurs and gets resolved in the sixth stanza. Then there comes the memory of his faithless love, but he forgets to remember that she was faithful as his heart vibrates to the patter of the rain. The resolution of seventh stanza reveals the speakers assertion that Art cannot equal the subduing strain on sorrowful passions as the patter of nature’s rain can.

 

 

• The writer is lying idle in his bed.

 

• He heard the sound of the clouds.

 

• Suddenly the quietness of the environment disappeared.

 

•It started raining lightly.

 

•The roof is of tin, so rain creates beautiful sound.

 

• The sound echoed in the heart of the poet.

 

• He remembered a number of things.

 

• Some memories are sweets and some are sad.

 

• The sound of rain appeared to be bliss to the poet.

 

 

i) When the humid shadows hover

Over all the starry spheres,

And the melancholy darkness

Gently weeps in rainy tears,

 

a) What are the humid shadows?

 

b) What do they do?

 

c) Why does the poet call darkness melancholy?

 

ii) 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 bright hues into woof,