Poem- 3 The Voice of the Rain, 11th-Eng

3. The Voice of the Rain (Walt Whitman)

1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’?

Ans. Walt Whitman

2. What is the poem of the earth?

Ans. The rain

3. Who does ‘thou’ refer to?

Ans. To the shower

4. What was the shower a ‘Poem’ of?

Ans. Of the earth

5. Where does the rain take birth from?

Ans. From the earth and  the bottomless sea

6. What is bottomless?

Ans. The sea

7. How is shower formed?

Ans. Vaguely

8. What washes the droughts?

Ans. The shower

9. What makes the earth pure and beautiful?

Ans. The rain

10. What is the origin place of the song?

Ans. The heart

*3. The Voice of the Rain (Walt Whitman)*

Short Type Q-Ans.

*1. There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicate this?*

Ans. The two voices in the poem are the voice of the poet and the voice of the rain. The lines that indicate the voice of the poet are, “And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower,” and the lines that indicate the voice of the rain are, “I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain”.

*2. What does the phrase ‘strange to tell’ mean?*

Ans. The phrase “strange to tell” means that it is quite strange for the poet to believe and express in words that the soft-falling rain replied to his question.

*3. How does rain give back life to the earth?*

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*What functions are performed by the rain on the earth?*

Ans. From the sky rain comes down on earth and washes the dust layers of the earth. The rain helps the unborn seeds to sprout. Rain makes the environment clear. 

*4. Explain the words: ‘reck’d or unreck’d.*

Ans.  Reck'd or unreck'd means whether you care for the sound of the rains or not, whether somebody listens to the sound of rain or not. It does not affect the rains and neither does it affects the poet.

Long Answer

1. Write brief summary of the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’.

Ans. The poem," The Voice of The Rain" is written by Walt Whitman. The rain becomes the voice of the earth because it provides water. Nothing will grow on the earth if there is no rain. The rain calls itself the poem of the earth.  Like a beautiful poem, it provides life, pleasure, beauty and happiness to the earth. The rain comes down from the sky on the earth and washes the drought and dust layers of the earth. The rain helps the unborn seeds to sprout. The rain is also like a song. It takes birth from the land and then returns to it.