Question

The voice of the Rain..
class 11.. english..
summary in 80 words..​

Answer 1

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Poet narrates a conversation he had with the falling drops of rain. In the poem, he asks the rain, “And who art thou?” on which the rain replies by calling itself “the poem of the Earth.” Moreover, the rain defines how it rises unnoticeably (as vapour) out of the land and sea and floats up to heaven, where it converts into clouds. After that, it falls back to Earth to refresh the drought-filled land. This allows the seeds to grow into something necessary and beautiful. Further, the poet equates the role of the poet in making this “song”

Answer 2

Summary:

In this poem, poet Walt Whitman beautifully describes his conversation with rain. He askes the rain that who are you? And strangely enough, he received an answer from rain, which was translated and mentioned by the poet in the form of the poem.

The rain says tells that it eternally rises from the land and the bottomless sea, which means that the sea is very deep. These lines refer to evaporation, which is a part of the process of the water cycle.

The rain continues to tell that it raises and reaches the heaven, meaning very high in the sky, and it vaguely forms clouds, which are of different shapes, sizes and colours.

The rain says that it is changed but yet the same, which means that it has changed its state from water vapours to that of clouds, meaning it has changed, but at the same time, it hasn't changed because it's still water.

Further, the rain says that it descends, that means it falls, from the sky to end the draughts, and remove dust particles and atomies fom the atmosphere of the earth and clean and purify it.

Rain says that it also helps in germination of seeds, as before rain, the seeds were latent and unborn but after the rain, the seeds start to sprout and grow into a plant or crop.

It continues to tell that it gives life back to its origin, which means that the water, which was evaporated, condensed to form clouds and then prcipitated to end the draughts, clean, purify and beautify the earth; goes back to the source of evaporation, that is, the bottomless, or in other words, very deep sea and the land. This marks the completition of the water cycle. The water that returns to the sea and land, then evaporated again, forms clouds and falls in the form of rain and this cycle continues. This is why the rain says that it gives back life to its own origin.

Rain also purfies and beautifies the earth. The plants and greenery and nature looks very beautiful after rain.

The last 2 lines of the poem are kept in backets because it is not a part of their conversation but a general observation made by the poet Walt Whitman. He observes that just like his song is sung by people and it spreads across all the people, and it brings back love for him, the rain also does the same by evaporating, forming clouds and then precipitating and doing all the good things metioned above and then returning to its source of origin.

Reck’d or unreck’d in the poem means that it doesn't matter if you cared for the sound of the rain or not, if somebody listened to it o not, it does not affect the rain and neither does it affect the poet.

Poetic devices:

1. Personification: It is used in the whole poem. Rain is personified.
2. Metaphor: 'I am the poem of the earth'
3. Hyperbole: It means exaggeration of ideas and it is used in the line 'bottomless sea'
4. Imagery: 'soft falling shower'
5. Oxymoron: 'Changed and yet the same'