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    The document is a reading comprehension passage about the poem "Voice of the Rain" by Walt Whitman. It contains questions about the poem and answers explaining its themes of the rain's cyclic movement between sky and earth and its parallel to music. The passage analyzes how the poem presents a conversation between the poet and the rain, with the rain describing its journey in poetic terms to justify its claim of being the "Poem of Earth".

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    The document is a reading comprehension passage about the poem "Voice of the Rain" by Walt Whitman. It contains questions about the poem and answers explaining its themes of the rain's cyclic movement between sky and earth and its parallel to music. The passage analyzes how the poem presents a conversation between the poet and the rain, with the rain describing its journey in poetic terms to justify its claim of being the "Poem of Earth".

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    Voice of the Rain

    Walt Whitman

    A. Think it Out

    Question 1:
    There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicate this?
    Answer:
    One of them belongs to the poet and the other to the rain. These are indicated in
    lines 1-2 and 3-9 respectively.

    Question 2:
    What does the phrase ‘strange to tell’ mean?
    Answer:
    The phrase refers to a strange phenomenon—the rain gives an answer to the poet’s query. It
    is surprising to report the answer.

    Question 3:
    There is a parallel drawn between r« in and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the
    similarity between the two.
    Answer:
    The following words/phrases indicate the parallel between rain and music: ‘Poem of Earth’,
    ‘eternal I rise impalpable out of land and the bottomless sea’ ‘For song duly with love
    returns.’
    Both originate from a source, rise up, reach fulfilment, wander about whether cared about or
    not and finally return to source of origin with love.

    Question 4:
    How is the cyclic movement of rein brought out in the poem?
    Answer:
    Rain water rises untouched out of the land and deep sea and gathers in the sky, where it
    changes form, and then comes down to earth to bathe the dry tiny particles of dust layers and
    all that lies buried under it. Then it returns to the place of its origin. Science textbooks
    indicate that water vapours from the rivers and ocean rise up to the sky due to the intense
    heat. They assume the form of clouds and after condensation drop down as rain. The water
    flows back through rivers to the seas and oceans.

    Question 5:
    Why are the last two lines put within brackets?
    Answer:
    The last two lines contain a comment about music and its cycle. These differ from the first
    nine lines. The first two lines are the voice of the poet whereas lines three to nine are spoken
    by rain. The cycle of song is put within brackets to mark the difference in speakers but
    similarity in content.

    Question 6:
    List the pairs of opposites found in the poem.
    Answer:
    rise-descend; day-night; reck’d-unreck’d

    B. Notice the sentence pattern in the following:

    Rewrite these sentences in prose.

    1. And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.


    2. I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.
    3. Eternal I rise
    4. For song duly with love returns.
    Answer:

    1. I said to the soft-falling shower, “Who are you?”


    2. The voice of the rain said, “I am the poem of Earth.”
    3. I rise eternally.
    4. For song returns duly with love.
    Short Answer Type Questions

    Question 1:
    The poem begins in a conversational tone. Who are the two participants? What is the
    advantage of this method?
    Answer:
    The two participants are the poet and the rain. The poet makes the rain relate its own story.
    This direct presentation makes the narration more authentic, interesting and captivating.

    Question 2:
    “Behind the apparent simplicity, the poem hides a deep meaning.” What exactly does the
    poem convey to the reader?
    Answer:
    The poem is not merely a description of life-cycle of rain. It has deeper meaning. Rain is a
    poem or thing of beauty of Earth and so is song or music. The comparison between rain and
    music .and their function: making the Earth pure and beautiful conveys the eternal role of
    natural phenomenon and art in real life.

    Question 3:
    How does the rain justify its claim: “I am the Poem of Earth’”?
    Answer:
    The rain narrates the journey of its life—from birth to return to origin in mythical terms. The
    facts are scientific but the phrases that convey them are metaphoric and literary. The whole
    journey has a beauty and charm associated with a poem.

    Long Answer Type Questions

    Question 1:
    How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem “The Voice of the Rain”? What
    points of similarity do you notice between rain and music?
    Answer:
    The rain calls itself the poem of earth. It is everlasting and perpetual. It is something that
    cannot be touched. It originates from the land and the deep sea. Then it rises upward to
    heaven where it changes its form into a cloud, yet remains the same in quality. From the sky
    it pours down on earth to wash the dry tiny particles and dust layers of the earth. The rain
    helps the unborn seeds to sprout. These seeds lay hidden and unborn under the layers of earth.
    Rain gives back life to its origin making it pure and beautiful. Rain and music are both
    beautiful and life-giving. They are eternal sources of joy and go on perpetually. They inspire
    even dormant objects and persons with life and activity.

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