The Voice of the Rain Question and Answers

Class 11th English Literature

The Poem “The Voice of the Rain” by Walt Whitman from NCERT Hornbill, the CBSE board. Below you can find Questions and Answers.

1. What does the expression ‘Soft falling shower’ suggest?

Ans. It suggests that rain has a soothing effect on all living beings.

2. With what rain has been compared?

Ans. The rain had been compared with Poem (song).

3. Why does the rainfall on earth?

Ans. To quench the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe, sprout the seed to return the love and purify and beautify the earth.

4. What will happen if there is no rain?

Ans. If there is no rain then the seed does not sprout remain latent and unborn and life will become impossible.

5. Why are the last lines of the poem put within brackets?

Ans. The last two lines are put within brackets because it contains a comment about music and its cycle. The process of the song is also the same just like rain as its origin is our soul and heart. When we sing we not only refreshes others but also soothes our mind and soul and these processes continue further.

6. There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to?

Ans. The voices is of poet and rain.

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

Ans. The poet refers to the strange phenomenon – the rain gives an answer to the poet’s question. It is surprising to tell the answers.

8. There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.

Ans. The poem word indicates that there is a parallel drawn between rain and music. As the music from our heart whether good or bad refreshes our mind, in the same way, the rain refreshes the earth.

9. 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 rain says that it rises from the land and the bottomless sea. It went to heaven and leave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe. This movement of rain is the same in science. The water evaporate and went to the sky to form a cloud. When raining stated the water come down on land and give life to earth.

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