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    AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, NOIDA

    CLASS 9. 2022-23
    RAIN ON THE ROOF -Coates Kinney

    THEME
    The theme of the poem is the healing power of rain. The musical sound of raindrops falling on the
    rooftop at night has the ability to revive sweet memories and rouse fancies in an otherwise busy
    mind. The rain thus soothes and comforts an overworked mind by taking it back to its lovely past.
    Some of our best memories in life are associated with rain.
    POETIC DEVICES
    STANZA 1
    1. Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound in two or more consecutive words.
    * Humid Hover, starry spheres, press pillow, lie listening
    2. Onomatopoeia: The use of sound words to create a dramatic effect and auditory imagery.
    ‘Patter’ is the use of sound word. It is the sound made by the rain drops falling on the roof top.
    3. Personification: Treating a non – living thing as a living being.
    ‘Darkness’ has been personified when he says that it is sad.
    4. Transferred Epithet: The use of an adjective with a noun when it refers to another noun.
    In ‘melancholy darkness’, the darkness is not melancholy, but it refers to the sad people.

    STANZA 2
    1. Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound in two or more consecutive words.
    * busy being, their thread, rain roof
    2. Onomatopoeia:  The use of sound words to create a dramatic effect and auditory imagery.
    ‘tinkle’, ‘patter’ – sounds made by the raindrops
    3. Personification: Treating a non – living thing as a living being.
    ‘Recollection’ is personified when he says that they weave dreams.
    4. Transferred Epithet: The use of an adjective with a noun when it refers to another noun.
    ‘dreamy fancies’ – it does not mean that the fancies are dreamy but refers to  the people who
    have dreams

    STANZA 3
    1. Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound in two or more consecutive words.
    memory my mother, Darling dreamers
    2. Onomatopoeia:  The use of sound words to create a dramatic effect and auditory imagery.
    ‘patter’ – sound of raindrops falling on the shingles of the roof

    ASSIGNMENT TO BE DONE IN THE REGISTER


    RTC-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

    a. Who weeps in the form of rainy tears?


    b. What is considered a bliss in the above lines?
    RTC 2
    Now in memory comes my mother,
    As she used in years a gone,
    To regard the darling dreamers
    Ere she left them till the dawn:
    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.

    a. Who comes in the memory of the poet and when?


    b. Who are the “darling dreamers” he refers to?

    SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS(30-40 WORDS ONLY)


    USE THE VALUE POINTS TO FRAME GRAMATICALLY CORRECT ANSWERS
    Q1. What makes an echo in the poet’s heart?
    (sound of the raindrops on the roof )
    Q2. Why does the poet call the sound of the rain as “refrain”?
    (refrain is a line repeatedly used in a song or a poem, drops of the rain produce a piece of and
    continuous music by way of their pattering)
    Q3. What appears when the rain falls on the shingles?
    (tinkling sound, it echoes in his heart. old memories weave their air-threads into pattering sounds)
    Q4 What is the main theme of the poem rain on the roof?
    ( the healing power of rain. The musical sound of raindrops revives sweet memories , rouses
    fancies in an otherwise busy mind, rain - soothes and comforts one by taking it back to its lovely
    past.)
    LONG QUESTION(100 TO 150 WORDS)
    ELABORATE AND EXPLAIN USING EXAMPLES FROM THE LESSON
    LONG ANSWER SHOULD BE FRAMED IN 2 TO 3 PARAGRAPHS.
    How does the poet react to the sound of the rain falling on the roof?
    OR
    What is the effect of the sound of the rain on the heart and mind of the poet?
    VALUE POINTS: deep attachment-blissful mood -enjoys the comfort of his bedroom, leisurely
    listening to the music of the rain. The music stirs - corresponding echo in the heart of the poet
    -rhythmic throbbing- gets engrossed in fanciful, dreamy thoughts-rain awakens many memories of
    the past- revives the memory of his mother as she looked at her children very
    affectionately-recollects the fond, affectionate look of his mother which she cast on him- poet’s
    mind and heart respond sensitively to the soft pattering sound of the rain falling on the roof.

    LET US CHECK
    COMPREHENSION ANSWERS
    RTC 1
    a. The darkness weeps in the form of rainy tears.
    b. Pressing the pillow is considered as a bliss in the above lines.
    RTC 2
    a. The poet’s mother comes in his memory as he sleeps in his bedchamber on a rainy night when
    rain lashes the tiles of the roof of his house.
    b. “Darling Dreamers” refers to the poet and his siblings when they were children and had sweet
    dreams. They were loved by their mother and so, were her ‘darlings’.

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