CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poetic device used in the line, ‘Every tinkle on the shingles’ is Onomatopoeia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Onomatopoeia:The word ‘tinkle’ is used here as a sound. Explanation: 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poet is expressing his feelings when he hears the raindrops falling on the roof top of his house. He says that every tinkle on the shingles has an echo in the heart. Whenever he hears rain falling on the roof top, the sound repeats in his heart and in his dreams, he has many different, fanciful imaginations.

Detailed explanation-4: -i) Shingles are rectangular hardwood roof tiles. When rain falls on the roof, it creates the tinkling sound mentioned above. ii) The poet’s head is inundated with many ideas and fancies when he is in his cottage and rests in his cosy bed listening to the lovely sound of rain on the roof.

Detailed explanation-5: -The sound of the rain makes him correlate his past with his present. That is why the poet is moved by the sound of the rain drops on the shingles of his room. Whenever he hears this sound it brings back memories of the past and he is reminded of his mother.