The Voice of the Rain Question Answer Chapter 3 Solved PDF

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

Answer: The two voices belong to the poet and the rain. The poet's voice is heard in the question: "And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower," The second voice is that of the rain: "I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain." These lines clearly indicate the two voices in the poem.

2. What does the phrase "strange to tell" mean?
Answer: The phrase "strange to tell" means that it is surprising and unusual that the rain gave an answer to the poet's question. The poet presents the rain as if it can speak.

3. There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.
Answer: The words "Poem of Earth" and the last two lines about "song", "birth-place", "fulfilment" and "love returns" draw a parallel between rain and music. Rain rises from the earth and sea, falls back to the earth and gives it life. In the same way, a song comes from its birthplace, travels through the world and finally returns with love to its origin. Both rain and music complete a natural cycle.

4. How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what you have learnt in science.
Answer: The poem describes rain as rising from the land and the sea, going up into the sky, changing its form and then coming down again to the earth. It washes the dry earth, gives life to seeds and returns life to its own origin. This is similar to the water cycle that we learn in science. Water evaporates from the earth and seas, rises into the atmosphere, forms clouds and returns to the earth as rain.

5. Why are the last two lines put within brackets?
Answer: The last two lines are put within brackets because they give an additional comparison between rain and song. They explain how a song, like rain, returns to its birthplace after completing its journey.

6. List the pairs of opposites found in the poem.
Answer: rise — descend; changed — same; day — night; reck'd — unreck'd; birth-place — returns. The poem directly contains contrasts such as "altogether changed, and yet the same", "by day and night" and "Reck'd or unreck'd".

1. And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.
Answer: I asked the soft-falling shower who it was.

2. I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.
Answer: The voice of the rain said that it was the Poem of Earth.

3. Eternal I rise.
Answer: I rise eternally.

4. For song … duly with love returns.
Answer: A song comes from its birthplace, travels away after being completed and, whether remembered or not, returns to its birthplace with love.