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THE VOICE OF RAIN. Warm Up Exercise. Name the seasons of India. What comes after summer ? Why do we like rainy season. The Voice of the R ain.
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Warm Up Exercise • Name the seasons of India. • What comes after summer ? • Why do we like rainy season.
The Voice of the Rain • And who art thou? Said I to the soft falling shower, which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, • Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land & the bottomless sea, • Up ward to heaven ,whence, vaguely from’d, altogether changed, & yet the same,
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust layers of the globe, • And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn; • And forever, by day & night, I give back life to my own origin, • And make pure & beautify it ; • ( For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering Reck’dor unreck’d, duly with love returns.)
Difficult Words • Impalpable:-Something that cannot be touched • Lave:- Wash, Bathe • Atomies:- Tiny Particles • Latent:- Hidden
Important Points • Personification is the literary device used in the poem. • There are two speakers in the poem- the poet & the rainfall. • The poem begins in a conversational tone. • The first two lines form the question put by the poet to the rainfall & the rest constitute the answer of the rainfall. • There is a parallel drawn between rain & music. Both originate from a source, rise up, reach fulfillment, wander about & finally return to their origin. • The present poem is a Nature poem That deals with the cyclic movement of rainfall.
Questions • Name the poem & the poet. • Who does ‘I’ refer to in the first & third line in the poem. • What do you understand by the phrase ‘strange to tell’ ? • From where does rain originate & how? • What happens to the rain in the sky? • Why does the rain comes down? • What for is rainfall compared to music? • Why have the last two lines put within brackets? • What is the rhyme scheme of the poem ? • Speak about some benefits of music.
Home Assignment • Write the summary of the poem in your own words. • Write a paragraph on “Rainwater harvesting”.
Project Work • Taking help from any geographic sourcebook, prepare a chart displaying the cyclic movement of rainfall. • Write a poem on rainfall / rain on your own.