Falling rain

Stanza 1 

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, 

Q. Read the above stanza carefully and answer the questions given below :

Stanza 2

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; 

Q. Read the above stanza carefully and answer the questions given below :
A) .  Name the poem and the poet.
B).  Who speaks these lines?
C). Where is the rain formed and how? 
D) Where does it descend? What does it do there?
(E) What will happen to the seeds without rain?
F).  Find words in the stanza which mean the same as:
(a) hidden up
(b) wash, bathe

      Stanza 3.

 And forever, by day and night,

 I give back life to my own origin, 
And make pure and beautify it,

 [For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering 

Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.]

Q. Read the above stanza carefully and answer the questions given below :

Some Important Examination Questions

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

Q. 2. What does the phrase "strange to tell" mean?

Q. 3. There is a parallel drawn between rain and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.

Q.4  How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what you have learnt in science.

Q 5. 
What does the rain do to the earth when it fails down on the earth?

Q 6
What is the intention of the poet in the poem?