now in memory comes my mother as she used in years agone, To regard the darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn what haunts the Poet in the poem rain on the roof: (i) his friends (ii) sound of rainfall (iii) his mother's memories (iv) None.

Explanation:The mothers memeories. As she used in years gone.To regard the darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn;

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.