Rain on the Roof

A Poem of Class IX (CBSE) by Coates Kinney, nicely described with the Central Idea of the poem.

1. Rain on the Roof A Poem by: Coates Kinney A PowerPoint presentation by: Mrinal Ghosh

2. Rain on the Roof 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! Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart; And a thousand dreamy fancies Into bust being start, And a thousand recollections Weave their air-air-threads into woof, As I listen to the patter Of the rain upon the roof. 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. I

3. Rain on the Roof Central Idea of the poem: This poem tells us what the poet is thinking about when he hears the sound of the rain falling. The poem praises the healing power of nature’s rain, especially when heard from a cosy bed in a lovely cottage. The poet says that it is pleasant to live and sleep comfortably in a cottage on a rainy night, when the tinkle of the rain brings dreamy fancies and he recollects fond memories of the past. The rain is, thus, an instrument of beautiful memories of the past years. The sounds of rain falling takes the poet to his childhood when the fondest memory of his mother is brought before him in all her gentle loveliness.

4. Rain on the Roof