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.
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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