Notes For All Chapters English Beehive Class 9
Introduction
- The poem talks about what happens when the sky gets covered with dark clouds and it starts to rain.
- It asks if you have ever heard the soft sound of rain falling on the roof (called patter).
- It wonders what thoughts come to your mind when you hear this beautiful sound from nature.
- The poem shares what the poet dreamed about while listening to the rain.
The Poem: Rain on the Roof
- Poet: Coates Kinney
- The poem describes the joy of lying in bed and listening to rain on the roof. It brings back happy memories and dreams.
Stanza 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 soft rain overhead!
- Explanation in Easy English: When wet clouds (humid shadows) cover the stars in the sky (starry spheres), and the sad darkness cries like rain (melancholy darkness weeps in rainy tears), it is a great happiness (bliss) to lie on the pillow in a simple room bed (cottage-chamber bed) and listen to the soft sound (patter) of rain falling on the roof above.
Stanza 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.
- Explanation in Easy English: Each light sound (tinkle) on the roof tiles (shingles) echoes in the heart. It starts many dream-like thoughts (dreamy fancies) that become active (busy being start). Many old memories (recollections) come together like threads in cloth (weave their air-threads into woof) while listening to the rain sound on the roof.
Stanza 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:
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.
- Explanation in Easy English: Now, the poet remembers his mother from long ago (years agone). She used to watch over her dear sleeping children (darling dreamers) before leaving them until morning (ere she left them till the dawn). He feels her loving gaze (fond look) on him as he listens (list) to the repeated sound (refrain) of rain playing on the roof tiles (shingles) like music.
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