What makes the poet ask the rain who art thou why does the poet feel it strange to hear the rain speak explain i am the poem of earth why does rain call itself poem of earth?
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The poet asks the rain who it is as he feels a kind of kinship with. The poet writes poems for his readers and the rain is also the poem of the earth created by the Master Creator. It is a mysterious creation as it gives and revives life.
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The poet feels strange to hear the rain speak because he didn't know that the rain had a voice. It is for this he calls the poem, 'The Voice of the Rain'.
Rain is personified in the poem. Walt Whitman makes it call itself the poem of Earth. It calls itself so as it writes the history and geography in earth. It is created from the very bosom of the Earth deep down in the Sea; emerges from it and reaches the sky. From the sky it falls as rain and the drops Id rain are like drops of ink. Just as a poem is written in parched paper by a poet similarly the rain writes poetry in the Earth. Hence it calls itself the poem of the Earth.