Think it out
I. 1. There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to?
Which lines indicate this?
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2. What does the phrase “strange to tell” mean?
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3. There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which
words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.
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4. How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem?
Compare it with what you have learnt in science.
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5. Why are the last two lines put within brackets?
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6. List the pairs of opposites found in the poem.
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II. Notice the following sentence patterns.
1. And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.
2. I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.
3. Eternal I rise
4. For song… duly with love returns
Rewrite the above sentences in prose.
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III. Look for some more poems on the rain and see how this one is
different from them.
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