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The Voice of the Rain: by Walt Whitman

Gist of the poem:-


The poet, Walt Whitman, personifies rain and describes
the role of rain in maintaining the essence of the
beautiful planet Earth. The poem talks about the power
of rain in bringing about the dead to life. It tells how the
latent seeds are revived by the rain showers.
The simple phenomena of water cycle has been
described in a poetic manner by the poet. The poet has
a conversation with the rain and has been called a song
of rain by the poet.
Poetic devices have been employed by the poet very
beautifully, Ex. Personification, metaphor, simile,
onomatopoeia etc.
Questions and answers:-
I. Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that
follow.

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,

Question 1.
Who is T in the first line?
(a) The poet
(b) The land
(c) The sea
(d) The raindrops
Answer:
(a) The poet

Question 2.
What does the rain call itself? Why?
(a) The poet of the Earth
(b) The poem of the Earth
(c) The poem of the Sea
(d) The poet of the Sea
Answer:
The poem of the Earth

Question 3.
The word ‘thou’ in the extract is a ………. .
(a) noun
(b) verb
(c) preposition
(d) pronoun
Answer:
(d) pronoun

II. Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that
follow.

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,

Question 1.
What does the use of word ‘eternal’ indicate here?
(a) It indicates the continual process of rain
(b) It indicates the continual process of nature
(c) It indicates the discontinuous process of rain
(d) It indicates the discontinuous process of nature

Question 2.
From where does ‘I’ rise and where does it go?
(a) It rises in the form of droplets and goes to the sea
(b) It rises in the form of clouds and goes to the sky
(c) It rises in the form of water vapour and goes to the land
(d) It rises in the form of water vapour and goes to the sky
Question 3.
Which word in the extract means the same as “in a way that is uncertain,
indefinite or unclear”?
(a) Eternal
(b) Impalpable
(c) Vaguely
(d) Bottomless

III. Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that
follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,


And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

Question 1.
With what purpose does the rain descend from the sky?
(a) To trouble the creatures of the Earth
(b) To give life to the drought affected areas and plants
(c) To wash the dust layers enveloping the Earth
(d) Both (b) and (c)

Question 2.
What will happen if T was not there?
(a) It would result in happiness on the Earth
(b) It would not matter to the residents of the Earth
(c) The seeds will remain as seeds and plants will not grow
(d) It would result in the rise of temperature on Earth

Question 3.
……….. is the opposite of ‘latent’.
(a) Inactive
(b) Manifest
(c) Dormant
(d) Resolute

IV. Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that
follow.
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

Question 1.
In what way does the rain help its place of origin?
(a) By causing floods
(b) By providing water to the drought stricken areas
(c) By washing away impurities from the Earth
(d) Both (b) and (c)

Question 2.
What is the importance of the word ‘forever’?
(a) It points to the everlasting features of artificial elements
(b) It points to the everlasting features of natural elements
(c) It points to the temporary features of natural elements
(d) It points to the temporary features of artificial elements

Question 3.
……….. in the extract is the opposite of ‘ending’.
(a) By
(b) Back
(c) Origin
(d) Beginning

V. Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that
follow.

For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or
unreck’d, duly with love returns.

Question 1.
What is the similarity between a song and the rain?
(a) They return to their place of origin
(b) They are never ending
(c) They do not have any origin
(d) They are liked by one and all

Question 2.
How has the poet been able to put his own reflections?
(a) By using quotation marks
(b) By using parenthesis or brackets
(c) By making notes in his diary
(d) By telling his friends about his experiences

Question 3.
For what purpose has the phrase ‘reck’d’ or ‘unreck’d’ used in the passage?
(a) For highlighting the author’s comments
(b) To indicate that rain or a song keep completing their life-cycle
(c) To indicate that rain or a song do not complete their life-cycle
(d) For making the poem interesting

Q.4 Answer the following questions in a concise manner.

1. What is the meaning of ‘impalpable’?


A. Impalpable means something that cannot be felt by touching or seeing.
When water takes the form of vapour, it is not visible to the human eye and
nor can we feel its touch.

The vapour rises to the sky, condenses and forms clouds which causes rain.
Though we are aware of its presence, the process remains invisible to us.
Hence, the rain has rightly called itself ‘impalpable’.

2. How does the rain become the voice of Earth?


A. In the poem, ‘The Voice of the Rain’, the poet describes how the rain falls
on Earth. He also asks a question to the rain’about it. He calls the showers of
the rain as ‘Poem of Earth’ as the rain gives a new lease of life to ‘ the
scorched and parched Earth and falls on Earth in a rhythmic manner.

In fact, it is the voice of Earth as the slowly falling showers produce a very
soft music and Earth finds its expression only through the showers falling on
it.

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