4. About the poet .
Rachel wrote amazing fiction stories for children.
She was also a poet and a novelist
5. THEME-
The poem talks about how an ice cream man brings joy and happiness during the sizzling heat of
the summer days . He brings variety of ice cream in his cart. He also bring fizz drinks to snuff off
the thirst of children .the ice cream man becomes everyone’s favourite during summer.
6. When summer’s in the city, And
brick’s a blaze of heat, The Ice-
cream man with his little cart
Goes trundling down the street.
7. New words / hard words
Blaze
trundle
bright flames of fire
(with reference to a wheeled
vehicle or its occupants)
move or cause to move
slowly and heavily
8. Explanation -
• In the first stanza, the poet says that it is summertime and the city is
burning with sizzling heat. The sun blazes extremely. The ice-cream
man comes to the city with his ice-cream cart and goes slowly on the
streets with his cart.
9. Beneath his round umbrella,
Oh, what a joyful sight,
To see him fill the cones with mounds,
Of cooling brown and white:
10. New words / hard words
Beneath
Mounds
Sight
Under
Heap ( heap of ice cream )
View
11. EXPLANATION
• In this stanza, the poet says that the ice-cream man is a source of joy
and happiness to everyone in this scorching heat. It is wonderful and
joyous for children to see how the ice-cream man fills the cone with
brown and white creamy ice-cream under his big round umbrella.
13. Hard work / new work
Frosty fizz • Frosty relates to something
which is 'very cold and has a thin
layer of white ice covering over
it. Fizz is any drink, which has
froth or bubble over it. So, 'frosty
fizz' means an ice-cold fizzy
drink
14. Explanation -
• In this stanza, the poet talks about the variety of flavours the ice cream
man has in hid cart like vanilla, chocolate and strawberry . The ice
cream man a also has chilled frosty fizz drinks in different colours like
green orange white and pink.
15. His cart might be a flower bed,
Of roses and sweet peas,
The way the children cluster round
As thick as honeybees.
16. New words / hard words
Cluster
Sweet pea
A group of similar things or
people positioned or
occurring closely together.
a climbing plant of the pea
family, widely cultivated for its
colorful fragrant flowers.
17. Explanation
• In this stanza, the poet compares the ice-cream cart with a bed of
flowers where roses and sweet peas are blossoming. The poet says that
the way children gather around the ice-cream cart, they look like
honey bees clustering around the flowers to get nectar. This is how the
ice cream man spreads joy and happiness everywhere in the summers.
18. Summary -
The poet describes a hot summer say scene of the city. In the summer
day everybody get tired of the heat and the sun blazes extremely.
Meanwhile, the ice cream man comes downs the streets with his cart.
The ice cream man becomes a means of joy and happiness for everyone.
19. He has different flavors of ice cream in his cart. He has chilled frosty fizz drinks to
drink too. Children flock around the cart and ask for their favourite flavor of ice cream
or chilled drink. The poet has compared the ice cream cart with the bed of roses and
sweet peas, where the children gather as honey bee clusters around the flowers to nectar.
This is how the ice cream man spreads joy and happiness everywhere in summers.
