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Class 11 English Poem 3 – The Voice of the

Rain
By Walt Whitman

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The Voice of the Rain Summary in Hindi
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The Voice of the Rain Introduction of the

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The poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’ is written by Walt Whitman. It is a
conversation between the poet and the rain. The rain explains its eternal
journey in its birth-place, i.e. earth to the poet.

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The Voice of the Rain Summary – In the poem, the poet asks the soft-
falling shower, ‘Who are you?’ to which she replies that she is the poem
of earth. It is a strange thing for the rain to reply to the poet. The rain
told the poet that she cannot be touched as she rises in the form of
water vapor in the sky from the land and the bottomless sea. It changes
its shape yet it remains the same. The vapor changes into clouds due to
condensation.
It falls back on the surface of the earth to provide water to the drought-
prone areas and to beautify and purify the earth (its birthplace). It
provides life to the seeds inside the earth and helps them grow.
The rain doesn’t care if anyone bothers about her deeds or not, she
completes her work and comes back home. The poet also compares the
rain with a song as they both share a common journey. The song
originates from the heart of the singer, travels across to fulfill the aim
and comes back with due love for the singer (its originator).

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The Voice of the Rain Summary in Hindi

कविता में, कवि नरम-गिरने वाली बौछार से पूछता है , ‘तुम कौन हो?’ जिस पर वह जवाब देती
है कि वह पृथ्वी की कविता है। बारिश के लिए कवि को जवाब देना अजीब बात है। बारिश ने
कवि से कहा कि उसे छु आ नहीं जा सकता क्योंकि वह जमीन और अथाह समुद्र से आकाश
में जलवाष्प के रूप में उठती है। यह अपना आकार बदलती है फिर भी वही रहती है।
संघनन के कारण वाष्प बादलों में बदल जाती है।

यह सूखाग्रस्त क्षेत्रों को पानी प्रदान करने और पृथ्वी (इसकी जन्मस्थली) को सुंदर और शुद्ध
करने के लिए पृथ्वी की सतह पर वापस गिरती है। यह पृथ्वी के अंदर के बीजों को जीवन
प्रदान करती है और उन्हें बढ़ने में मदद करती है।
बारिश को परवाह नहीं है कि कोई उसके कर्मों की परवाह करता है या नहीं, वह अपना काम
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क्योंकि वे दोनों एक समान यात्रा साझा करते हैं। गीत गायक के दिल से निकलता है , लक्ष्य को
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 पूरा करने के लिए यात्रा करता है और गायक (इसके प्रवर्तक) के लिए उचित प्यार के साथ
वापस आता है।

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The Voice of the Rain Poem Explanation

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And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,

Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the
bottomless sea,

Word Meaning
Who art thou – Who are you
Eternal – never-ending
Impalpable – which cannot be described

Explanation of the Poem: In the above lines, the poet asked the soft-falling
shower ‘Who are you?’ to which the rain replied in a strange to state manner.
The rain said that it was the Poem of the Earth and it rose continuously from
the land and bottomless ocean in the form of vapours.

Poem

Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet

the same,
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

Word Meaning
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Whence – where with it.
Vaguely – not clearly
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Descend – come down
 Lave – wash; bathe
Atomics – small particles
Latent – hidden/buried

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Explanation of the Poem: The rain tells the poet that it rises upwards
towards the sky in the form of vapour where it changes its form (condenses
into water droplets). It also says that although its form gets changed, it still
remains the same.
The rain comes down to wash the drought and provide water. It also washes
away the dust and small particles from the earth’s surface. And the seeds
inside the earth grow into a plant because of the water provided by the rain.
It gives life to the seeds.

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And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;
(For the song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering
Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.)

Word Meaning
Reck’d or unreck’d – it means whether cared for or not cared for. It
doesn’t affect the rain nor the poet if someone listened to the rain or
not.

Explanation of the Poem: The rain says that by day and night it provides
life, care, enrichment, and water to the place from where it originated. The
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rain keeps enhancing the beauty and purity of the earthwith by preparing
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a life-
cycle for itself again.
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just like the heart
 of the singer, and travels to fulfill the earth’s needs and wanders. It finally
comes back to the place from where it originated. Whether it is ruined or not,
it returns to the original position, with a lot of love to its birth-place).

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The Voice of the Rain Literary Devices

Personification – the poet used a non-living thing as a living thing in the

poet

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

Metaphor – an indirect comparison between the qualities of different

things

I am the Poem of Earth – rain is being compared to a poem

Hyperbole – exaggerated statements

Bottomless sea

Imagery – visual description of something

Soft-falling shower

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Think it out

I. 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 rain’ and the ‘voice
of the poet’. The lines which indicate the voice of the rain are ‘I am the
Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain’ and the lines which indicate the
voice of the poet are ‘And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower’.

2. What does the phrase “strange to tell” mean?

Ans: The phrase ‘strange to tell’ means that it was strange for the soft-
falling rain to reply to the poet’s question. When the poet asked the rain
‘who art thou?’ the rain replied ‘I am the Poem of Earth’.

3. There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which words

indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.

Ans: The lines ‘For the song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment,
wandering Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns’ draws a parallel
between rain and music. Here, the poet compares the life-cycle of the
rain and the song. As the song originated from the heart of the singer,
wanders to the world, whether liked or not, comes back to its birth-place
in the end with lots of love. Similarly, the rain that originates from earth
(birth-place), fulfills its duty to beautify and purify the earth and wanders
and comes back with love for its creator.

4. How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem?

Compare it with what you have learnt in science.

Ans: In the poem, the water rises from the land and the bottomless sea
in the form of vapour. It then changes its form, transforms itself into
clouds. It comes down to the earth in the form of rain to wash drought,
provide water, give life to unborn and latent seeds inside the earth. The
rain purifies and beautifies the earth.

In science, the water is evaporated in the form of water vapour,

condenses in the sky to form clouds, and then rains down in the form of
water into rivers, streams, ground, ocean, etc. In the poem, the rain
describes its eternal journey itself.
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observations made by the poet and his thoughts. He made a similarity
between the rain and the music.

6. List the pairs of opposites found in the poem.

Ans: 1. Day, Night

2. Reck’d, Unreck’d

3. Rise, Descend

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The Voice of the Rain Grammar Exercises

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.

Ans:

1. I asked the soft-falling shower about its identity.

2. The voice of the rain presented herself as the poem of earth.

3. The rain told the poet that she rises upwards in a never-ending
process

4. The poet says that rain and music are similar to the song originates
from the heart of the singer, it travels across and fulfills its purpose. It
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