Song of the rain poem summary
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ummary in English by Kahlil Gibran
Song of the Rain Summary in English
In this poem, Kahlil Gibran celebrates rain as the life-giving force of this earth. The poem is written in the voice of the rain. The rain says that as it falls from the sky, it looks like silver threads dropped from heaven by the gods. Rain causes flowers to bloom and decorate nature’s fields and valleys. Raindrops are beautiful pearls that have been plucked from the crown of the goddess Ishtar by the daughter of Dawn. Ishtar is the goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. In the Babylonian pantheon, she ‘was the divine personification of the planet Venus’.
In Babylonian mythology, Aya is the goddess of dawn. Her daughter takes the raindrops and uses them to decorate the