How does the poem describe the rain in the poem rain in summer?
Answers
Longfellow's poem opens with the line, ''How beautiful is the rain!'' The author describes the beauty of the rain in comparison to the dust and heat that rises up from the roads. He likens it to the ''tramp of hoofs'' on the rooftop, and remarks about how it overflows its spout, pouring swiftly like a river.
Welcome Rain
The rain is welcomed by a sick man, who observes it from his bedroom. It offers a cooling relief to his fever and it quiets ''his fevered brain.'' Longfellow also explains how a group of boys leave their school and go splashing down the street in the rain. Even the far-off leopard in the ''dry grass and the drier grain'' appreciates the rain.
Closer to home, the oxen lift their heads to thank the Lord for the brief break from their work, and the farmer himself is not even upset because the rain means that crops will grow for ''his own thrift and gain.''