Question

Read the following stanza and answer the questions in brief. 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. Questions: 7. Who is l in the first and last lines of the stanza? 8. What is found to be strange? 9. Mention the figures of speech used in the last line of the stanza.Read the following stanza and answer the questions in brief.
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.
Questions:
7. Who is l in the first and last lines of the stanza?
8. What is found to be strange?
9. Mention the figures of speech used in the last line of the stanza.​

Answer 1

1. "I" in the first and last lines of the stanza is the rain.
2. the rain replying to the questions of the poet is found to be strange.
3. 'personification' is the figures of speech used in the last line of the stanza.

the above line is from the poem The Voice of the written by Walt Whitman.in the above line, the poet questions are answered by the rain . the rain is personified as a human who is speaking to the poet. it calls itself as the poem of the Earth. she explains her journey and the role she performs to the poet .