CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -1 Answer. The poet attaches the darkness with sadness. According to him, darkness has melancholy and is gently weeping in rainy tears.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to the poet, what is nature’s mood in ‘rainy darkness’? The poet shows the darkness to be in a melancholy or sad mood. This sadness is further heightened when the poet shows the darkness to be weeping and shedding tears in the form of raindrops.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: “Melancholy darkness” refers to the dark rain bearing clouds. The poet imagines that the clouds covering the sky are gloomy and depressed because they are heavy and grey. The poet further imagines that the clouds are weeping and their tears are falling down as rain drops.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: During the pattering sound of the rain falling on the roof, the memory of his mother haunts the poet. This memory has been haunting him quite often like every darling dreamer. His mother is no more.

Detailed explanation-5: -How is the mood of the poet contrasted with the mood of darkness? Whereas the darkness is in a sad and gloomy mood, the poet is in a happy mood as he considers it bliss to lie comfortably in bed pressing the head against the pillow and listening to the music made by the showers of the rain.