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In short: The poem paints a quiet, moonlit night in which the moon, like a lady in silver shoes, walks slowly and turns everything she touches to silver.
(ही कविता एका शांत चांदण्या रात्रीचे चित्र रेखाटते, ज्यात चंद्र चांदीचे जोडे घातलेल्या स्त्रीसारखा हळूहळू चालतो आणि ज्याला स्पर्श करतो ते सर्व चंदेरी करून टाकतो.)
- Type: Poem
- Poet: Walter de la Mare
- Speaker: The poet, describing a moonlit night
- Unit: 4
Summary in English
Slowly and silently, the moon walks through the night in her silver shoes. She peers this way and that, and sees silver fruit on silver trees. One by one, the windows catch her silver beams under the thatched roofs.
The dog sleeps in his kennel like a log, with paws of silver. White doves peep out of their shadowy cote in silver-feathered sleep.
A harvest mouse scampers by with silver claws and silver eyes, and still fish gleam in a silver stream beside silver reeds. Everything in the world looks silver in the moonlight.
मराठीत सारांश (Summary in Marathi)
हळूहळू, शांतपणे चंद्र चांदीचे जोडे घालून रात्रीतून चालतो. ती इकडे-तिकडे डोकावते आणि चंदेरी झाडांवर चंदेरी फळे पाहते. एकामागून एक, गवताच्या छपराखालील खिडक्या तिची चंदेरी किरणे झेलतात.
कुत्रा आपल्या घरात ओंडक्यासारखा झोपला आहे, त्याचे पंजे चंदेरी झाले आहेत. अंधाऱ्या खुराड्यातून पांढरी कबुतरे चंदेरी पिसांच्या झोपेत डोकावतात.
एक छोटा उंदीर चंदेरी नखे व चंदेरी डोळे घेऊन धावत जातो आणि चंदेरी लव्हाळ्यांजवळील चंदेरी ओढ्यात स्थिर मासे चमकतात. चांदण्यात संपूर्ण जग चंदेरी दिसते.
Theme and Message (मध्यवर्ती कल्पना)
Moonlight transforms an ordinary night into a calm, magical silver world.
चांदणे एका साध्या रात्रीला शांत, जादुई चंदेरी जगात बदलून टाकते.
Figures of Speech (अलंकार)
- Personification (चेतनगुणोक्ती): the moon walks the night in her silver shoes and peers this way and that.
- Simile (उपमा): the dog sleeps 'like a log'.
- Alliteration (अनुप्रास): 'Slowly, silently' and 'silver shoon'.
- Repetition (पुनरावृत्ती): the word 'silver' is repeated in almost every line.
Useful Words (शब्दार्थ)
| Word | मराठी अर्थ | Use it in a sentence |
|---|---|---|
| shoon | जोडे (जुना शब्द) | The princess wore golden shoon. |
| casement | खिडकी | Moonlight came through the casement. |
| thatch | गवताचे छप्पर | The hut had a thatch of dry grass. |
| couched | पहुडलेला | The cat lay couched on the mat. |
| cote | (पक्ष्यांचे) खुराडे | The pigeons sleep in a cote. |
| scampering | लगबगीने धावणारा | The squirrel went scampering up the tree. |
For the Exam (परीक्षेसाठी)
- The poem is written in rhyming couplets (aabbcc…): moon/shoon, sees/trees, catch/thatch.
- Only two things move in the poem: the moon and the harvest mouse. Everything else is still.
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🤔 Think as you read
Why does everything appear silver in the poem?
Answer: The moon ‘walks the night’ and covers everything in silver light.
The moon is described as a ___.
Answer: ‘Walks the night in her silver shoon’ (shoes): personification.
Only two things move in the poem. Which are they?
Answer: The moon walks slowly; the harvest mouse goes scampering by. Everything else is still.
Moving or at rest?
🗂️ Sort what you see in the poem.
Moving or at rest?
Q1. What would you draw?
🎯 Tap each thing in the picture and the word that describes it in the poem.
Things in the moonlit scene
Answer key
Draw: the moon, trees with fruit, casements (windows) with a thatched roof, a dog asleep in its kennel, doves in a dovecote, a harvest mouse, a stream with reeds and still fish.
Q2. Rhyming words and rhyme scheme
🎯 Tap two words that rhyme.
Rhyming pairs
The rhyme scheme of the poem is ___.
Answer: The poem is written in rhyming couplets: every two lines rhyme.
Q3. The pattern of ‘silver’
👉 Tap the correct answer.
In which lines of the poem does silver/silvery appear?
Answer: It appears in lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14: ten times in all, twice in lines 4, 12 and 14.
The pattern
Silver/silvery appears in every second line (the even-numbered lines), ten times in all: silver shoon; silver fruit, silver trees; silvery thatch; paws of silver; silver feathered sleep; silver claws, silver eye; silver reeds, silver stream. The regular repetition gives the poem a calm, musical rhythm and shows that the moonlight touches everything.
Q4 and Q5. A golden scene and the message
✍️ Q4. Describe a scene of dawn or sunset in golden light, then compare
Slowly the sun rises over the hills, and everything turns golden. Golden light falls on the fields of wheat; the river shines like melted gold; the temple top glows; the cows on their way to graze have golden backs; even the dust raised by the bullock cart sparkles like gold.
✍️ Q5. The same landscape looks different at different times. What is the message?
Things look different depending on how and when we see them. Life too changes with time and circumstances. We should not judge anything by one look, and we should learn to see the beauty in every moment, whether day or night.
Think and Write (विचार करा, लिहा)
- Describe a scene at sunrise in which everything looks golden.
- Make a list of things you would draw to show the scene in the poem.
- How does the same place look different at different times of the day?
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