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    The poem is a dialogue between the poet and the rain. The rain responds that it is the "Poem of Earth". It describes its cycle from vapor rising into the sky to falling back to the earth's surface to nourish and purify it, giving life back to its origin. The rain completes its work selflessly, like a song that originates from the singer and returns to them, in a continual cycle of giving.

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    The poem is a dialogue between the poet and the rain. The rain responds that it is the "Poem of Earth". It describes its cycle from vapor rising into the sky to falling back to the earth's surface to nourish and purify it, giving life back to its origin. The rain completes its work selflessly, like a song that originates from the singer and returns to them, in a continual cycle of giving.

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    The poem is a dialogue between the poet and the rain. The rain responds that it is the "Poem of Earth". It describes its cycle from vapor rising into the sky to falling back to the earth's surface to nourish and purify it, giving life back to its origin. The rain completes its work selflessly, like a song that originates from the singer and returns to them, in a continual cycle of giving.

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    JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA,

    LUDHIANA

    ENGLISH PROJECT
    [VOICE OF THE RAIN
    BY Walt Whitman]

    NIKHIL PRATAP
    XI COMMERCE
    SESSION 2022-2023
    acknowledgement

    In successfully completing this project, many


    people have helped me. I would like to thank all
    those who are related to this project.
    Primarily, I would thank God for being able to
    complete this project with success. Then I will
    thank my Principal MR. JITENDER BHAKOO
    and MR. SUKHDEEPRAJ, under whose
    guidance I learned a lot about this project. His
    suggestions and directions have helped in the
    completion of this project.
    Finally, I would like to thank my parents and
    friends who have helped me with their valuable
    suggestions and guidance and have been very
    helpful in various stages of project completion.

    NIKHIL PRATAP
    XI COMMERCE
    CERTIFICATE
    This is to certify that the project is titled “THE
    VOICE OF THE RAIN”. This project is submitted
    by NIKHIL PRATAP .This project was an authentic
    work done by him under my supervision and
    guidance.
    This project has not been submitted to any other
    institution.

    Date:01.11.2022
    MR. SUKHDEEP RAJ
    (name of project guide)
    JNV LUDHIANA
    (Name of institution)
    INTRODUCTION OF THE
    POET

    Walter Whitman ( May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American
    poet, essayist and journalist.
    Born in Huntington on Long Island, as a child and through much of his
    career he resided in Brooklyn. At age 11, he left formal schooling to go
    to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a
    government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass,
    was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well
    known. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person
    with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his
    death in 1892. During the American Civil War, he went to Washington,
    D.C. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often
    focused on both loss and healing. On the death of Abraham Lincoln,
    whom Whitman greatly admired, he wrote his well known poems, "O
    Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
    Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures. After a stroke towards the end
    of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health
    further declined. When he died at age 72, his funeral was a public event.
    Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith
    Costelloe argued: "You cannot really understand America without Walt
    Whitman, without Leaves of Grass ... He has expressed that civilization,
    'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history
    can do without him."Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman
    "America's poet ... He is American…

    THE VOICE OF THE RAIN


    THE TWO VOICES:
    And who art thou? said I to the softfalling shower,
    Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here
    translated:
    I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

    It appears that a dramatic conversation between the poet


    and the soft drizzles of the rain begins:
    The poet as if in the middle of a conversation asks the rain
    who he is.
    It is quite strange that the poet receives an answer. The
    poet attempts to interpret it for the reader:
    It is interpreted as the rain replying to the poet that he is
    the “Poem of Earth”.

    The Unstoppable and Eternal


    Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the
    bottomless sea,
    Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether
    changed, and yet the same,
    The rain continues to speak:
    It says that it rises upward, towards the sky from the deep
    sea and land in an undefinable form - water vapour.
    It gets formed as clouds, completely different from what it
    was, still maintaining the essence of its being.
    These expressions are a direct reference to the process of
    water cycle.

    Rain: the Provider, Sustainer and Redeemer


    I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the
    globe,
    And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent,
    unborn.

    Here comes the third stage of water cycle, where in the


    evaporated and condensed water vapour pours down as
    rain.
    When it rains, they say, it pours. The rain comes down to
    fulfill the dearth of water (referred here as drauth).
    It washes away every tiny speck of accumulated layers of
    dust on earth;
    It enables and nourishes the dormant seeds.
    The seeds without rain would remain Covert and waiting
    to come to life.
    Pay Back in the Same Coin
    And forever, by day and night, I give back life to
    my own origin, and make pure and beautify it
    The rain keeps giving back life to the origin that gave
    birth to rain itself; namely, the earth.
    It keeps replenishing the earth, beautifying it making
    it immaculate and livable.
    Gratitude- An Attitude
    These two lines of the poem speak about the
    power of giving back to the source.
    As the earth is, so the rain is and vice versa
    Giving back to the source can be a joyful and
    fulfilling.
    Rain gives back to the earth munificently by
    purifying, beautifying and replenishing it.
    The Voice of the Rain Summary –
    In the poem, the poet asks the soft-falling shower, ‘Who
    are you?’ to which she replies that she is the poem of
    earth. It is a strange thing for the rain to reply to the poet.
    The rain told the poet that she cannot be touched as she
    rises in the form of water vapor in the sky from the land
    and the bottomless sea. It changes its shape yet it remains
    the same. The vapor changes into clouds due to
    condensation.
    It falls back on the surface of the earth to provide water to
    the drought-prone areas and to beautify and purify the
    earth (its birthplace). It provides life to the seeds inside the
    earth and helps them grow.
    The rain doesn’t care if anyone bothers about her deeds or
    not, she completes her work and comes back home. The
    poet also compares the rain with a song as they both share
    a common journey. The song originates from the heart of
    the singer, travels across to fulfill the aim and comes back
    with due love for the singer (its originator).
    DIFFICULT WORDS:
    Who art thou – Who are you
    Eternal – never-ending
    Impalpable – which cannot be described
    Whence – where
    Vaguely – not clearly
    Descend – come down
    Lave – wash; bathe
    Atomics – small particles
    Latent – hidden/buried

    literary devices:
    Personification – the poet used a non-living thing
    as a living thing in the poet
    I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain
    Metaphor – an indirect comparison between the
    qualities of different things
    I am the Poem of Earth – rain is being compared
    to a poem
    Hyperbole – exaggerated statements
    Bottomless sea
    Imagery – visual description of something
    Soft-falling shower

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