summary of"Rain in Summer"in short.
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The poem is written by Longfellow on a rain in summer, where he is overjoyed by the shower in a hot day. He opens the poem by exclaiming, “How beautiful is the rain!” which shows his happiness and excitement about rain. He talks about how it the drizzle and shower relieves him from the heat and dust of the summer.
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
In these lines, he is just mesmerised by the rain washing off all the heat and dust from the narrow and broad lanes of the city, and he reiterates the statement, “How beautiful is the rain!” In the next lines, he speaks about how the drops of rain falling on the roofs are having a rhythmic appeal to it. He compares it with the hoofs of the horses, to give us an image of the rhythm and sound of the raindrops on the roof. In the last two lines, he writes how the rain falls from the sky as if it is freeing from the overflowing clouds in the sky.
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
In these lines, the poet is describes how it looks like when the rain falls on the window pane, and how swift and wider the gutters look, as they are full of rain water, and filled with mud it looks like a river roaring down. He feels overjoyed about the rain, and welcomes it with open arms.
The sick man from his chamber looks
At the twisted brooks;
He can feel the cool
Breath of each little pool;
His fevered brain
Grows calm again,
And he breathes a blessing on the rain.
In these lines, Longfellow is talking about how people of all the age groups enjoy rain in their own ways, and how they are happy to see the rain. The man who is ill looks at the brooks and branches from his room and feels the cool of the rain, he can sense it from the sight, and grows calm and feels better.
From the neighboring school
Come the boys,
With more than their wonted noise
And commotion;
And down the wet streets
Sail their mimic fleets,
Till the treacherous pool
Ingulfs them in its whirling
And turbulent ocean.
In these lines, the poet speaks of the small boys from the school, who are overjoyed to see the rain and the run from their classes to the wet streets making noises and screaming in excitement. They play in the rain and in the pool of water which is mixed with water mud and dirt. But they don’t care, and fall into it.
In the country, on every side,
Where far and wide,
Like a leopard’s tawny and spotted hide,
Stretches the plain,
To the dry grass and the drier grain
How welcome is the rain!
In these lines, Longfellow speaks about how the heat of the summer had dried every kind of vegetation around has dried and turned yellow. He says that the entire field resembles like a suitable place for the hideout of the leopard, as it’s yellow and spotted like its fur, and stretches all over the plains. And that parched bit of land is overjoyed, too, on the arrival of rain.
In the furrowed land
The toilsome and patient oxen stand;
Lifting the yoke encumbered head,
With their dilated nostrils spread,
They silently inhale
The clover-scented gale,
And the vapors that arise
From the well-watered and smoking soil.
Longfellow now is talking about the heat rising from the earth, and how the earth smells as the drops of rain falls on it, and cools down the hot soil. It cools and calms the entire environment around.
For this rest in the furrow after toil
Their large and lustrous eyes
Seem to thank the Lord,
More than man’s spoken word.
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Answer:
This famous and beautiful poem begins by stating how beautiful rain is after a long, hot and dusty summer. The sound it makes and the impact it has is explored and evoked in the poem, for example in the following passage:
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Note the way that the sound of the rain is created through the onomatopoeia of "clatter" and how the simile compares the sound to the "tramp of hoofs."
Then the poem goes on to describe the different reactions of many different types of people to this rain and how it helps and heals them. The sick man's fever is cooled, the boys find a natural source to express their joy and merriment in the rain, to the countryside the rain is incredibly welcome, the "patient oxen" offer more thanks than man is able to for the rain and lastly the farmer is also incredibly grateful for the "gain" that will come to him through the rain.
The poet, however is able to see all of these things and so much more, including "Things manifold / That have not yet been wholly told." Just like the rain, the poet is able to take a universal view and access places through his imagination that only water can seep into. Lastly, the seer is shown to reflect on the endless cycle of life and death and to be able to see:
The Universe, as an immeasurable wheel
Turning forevermore
In the rapid and rushing river of Time.
The poem thus begins by focusing on the particular, the rain falling in summer, and this thus develops into a meditation on the mystical workings of the entire universe.
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