Dear Students, we are providing The poem The Voice of The Rain Extract Questions with Solution for Class 11, In some of the examinations extract based questions are asked from the poem stanzas. Students should carefully read and practise all these extract from the Voice of The Rain poem.
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The Voice of The Rain Extract Questions
Direction:- Read the following The Voice of The Rain Extract Questions and answer them in your own words-
(1)
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
Q.(i) Who is speaking and to whom?
Ans. The poet is speaking to the soft-falling shower of rain.
Q.(ii) What is strange to tell and why?
Ans. It surprised the poet to see that the shower of rain was answering his question.
Q.(iii) What has the poet to translate and why?
Ans. The shower talked to the poet in the voice of the rain. So the poet had to translate it for the reader.
Direction:- Read the following The Voice of The Rain Extract Questions and answer them in your own words-
(2)
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea.
Q.(i) What has been called ‘the Poem of Earth’?
Ans. The rain has been called ‘the Poem of Earth’.
Q.(ii) Where does the rain rise from?
Ans. It rises from the land and the sea.
Q.(iii) What kind of image is created by eternal and impalpable out of the land?
Ans. The rain is described as continuously rising, unseen or untouched by the world.
Direction:- Read the following The Voice of The Rain Extract Questions and answer them in your own words-
(3)
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe;
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
Q.(i) Who or what does ‘I’ here refer to?
Ans. ‘T’ refers to the rain.
(ii) What does rain do to droughts, atomies and dust-layers of the globe?
Ans. It washes them softly.
(iii) The word ‘descend’ is a contrast to the previous image of what?
Ans. Rain was rising upwards to heaven.
Direction:- Read the following The Voice of The Rain Extract Questions and answer them in your own words-
(4)
For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment,
wandering Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.
Q.(i) Why have these words been put in brackets?
Ans. These words are the poet’s own comments on what the rain has said, so they have been put in the brackets.
Q.(ii) What is meant by the song here?
Ans. It means the poet’s own song or music of the soul.
Q.(iii) What is the birthplace of the song?
Ans. The heart or soul is the birthplace of the song.
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