Fill in the blanks with words in the box to complete the summary of the poem.
cloud make-believe silver moon pretend evening moon golden dawn
blue sky mother shore hands laughter lost dreamy
refuses tight shut home waves imaginative smile dance break
Rabindarnath Tagore

The poem ‘Clouds and Waves’ was written by ____________. This poem has a ____________ quality to it. It is a tribute to the ____________ mind of children who create and live in their ____________ worlds.
The child describes to his ____________ how the beings who live up in the clouds play all day long. They play with the ____________ and ____________. The child wants to go to them, but when they call him to the edge of the earth to be taken up into the clouds, he ____________. He says his mother is waiting for him at ____________, and he cannot leave her behind. The folks in the clouds smile and float away.
The child claims to know a better game. He offers to be the ____________ while his mother will be the ____________. He shall cover his mother with both his ____________ as clouds cover the moon, and the ceiling of the house would be the ____________.
The boy says that the folk who live in the ____________ call out to him. They sing from dawn till dusk. They move from one ____________ to the next and do not know where they go.
When the boy asks how he can join them, they ask him to come to the edge of the shore and stand with his eyes ____________. He would be carried away by the waves. The boy refuses again as his mother wants him at home in the ____________, and he cannot leave her behind. The folks in the waves ____________, ____________ and pass by.
The boy offers to be the waves if his mother would ____________ to be a strange shore. He would run and crash into her lap with ____________ just as waves roll on and on and ____________ upon the shore. No one in the world would know where they both are, as they are ____________ in play with each other.

Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me-
“We play from the time we wake till the day ends.
We play with the golden dawn, me play with the silver moon.”
I ask, “But how am I go get up to you?”

1. How does the speaker perceive the cloud dwellers’ lifestyle based on their play from dawn till dusk?

2. Why might the speaker feel the need to question the possibility of reaching the folk in the clouds?

3. What does the use of “golden dawn” and “silver moon” indicate about the essence of the cloud people’s play?

4. How does this stanza evoke a sense of curiosity and imagination in the reader?