CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The sweet memories in the poet’s mind raindrops falling on the roof. Explanation: The sound of rain on the roof brought back memories of his mother.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: This rain and its sound have resurrected the fondest memory of the poet’s mother in his mind.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which distinctive memory is revived in the poet’s mind? The single major memory that comes distinctly to the poet or his mother. The rain revives his thoughts of the time when his mother used to look lovingly at him and his siblings before she went to sleep in her bedchamber.

Detailed explanation-4: -He is filled with nostalgia as he remembers his mother. He recalls how his mother had looked at him and his sleeping siblings with fondness as they lay in their beds. Hence, the rain is a bliss for the poet.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ans : The memory is referred to as sad because he is missing his friends and his golden days. c) What do you think the poet means when he says’ bring the light of other days’? Ans: By this the poet means fond memories of his boyhood years and the lovely world he was living in.