Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
When the humid shadows hover
Overall, 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!
Q. Why does the poet call darkness a melancholy?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
When the humid shadows hover
Overall, 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!
Q. What does starry spheres mean?
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Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
When the humid shadows hover
Overall, 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!
Q. Which poetic device has been used in third line?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
When the humid shadows hover
Overall, 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!
Q. What is the favourite activity of the poet during the rainy season?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
When the humid shadows hover
Overall, 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!
Q. Find a word from the passage whose meaning is same to ‘sadness’.
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Select the correct meaning of ‘refrain’.
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Where does the poet’s mother live?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Who comes in the poet’s memory?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Who are the darling dreamers?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. What does this poem talk about?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Where is rain making a noise?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. What tinkles on the shingles?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Who are darling dreamers in the poem?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. What makes an echo in the poet’s mind?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
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.
Q. Trace a word from the extract that means ‘memories.
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