- “Eternal, I rise impalpable”. What gives eternity to rain?
- Behind the apparent simplicity, the poem hides a deep meaning. What exactly does the poem convey to the reader?
- How did the poet look at the rain? What did he ask it?
- How does the rain describe herself in the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’?
- How does the rain justify its claim: ‘I am the Poem of Earth’?
- How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what you have learnt in science?
- List the pairs of opposites found in the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’.
- On what does the rain descent? What does it do to those things on which it falls?
- The poem begins in a conversational tone. Who are the two participants in this conversation?
- There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicate this?
- There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.
- What does the phrase ‘strange to tell’ mean?
- What does the rain do day and night to the things?
- What is the cycle of the song? What does it represent?
- What questions does the poet put the rain and how does he feel when he gets the answer?
- Why are the last two lines put within brackets?
- Why does rain say, “I give back life to my own again ?”
- Why is rain compared to music?
