WALT WHITMAN

WHAT SEASONS OF THE YEAR DO YOU SEE IN THESE IMAGES?

 THE SEASONS IN THESE IMAGES ARE-

MONSOON WINTER

AUTUMN SPRING
WHAT DO THESE PICTURES SHOW YOU?
WHAT DO THESE PICTURES SHOW YOU?

FLOOD DROUGHT
WHAT DO THESE IMAGES TELL YOU?
 IMPACT OF RAIN ON EARTH

SHIPWRECK
FLOOD
TSUNAMI LANDSLIDE

GREENERY GERMINATION WHEAT FIELDS BIRD

ABOUT THE POET
● An American poet, essayist, and journalist
● A humanist, who was a part of the transition
between transcendentalism and realism,
incorporating both views in his works
● Was among the most influential poets in the
American canon, often called the father of free
verse
● Born on 31st May 1819, West Hills, New York,
United States
● Died on 26th March 1892, Camden, New Jersey,
United States
● Poems: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, O
Captain! My Captain!
● Awards: Golden Kite Award for Picture Book
Illustration
WALT WHITMAN
ABOUT THE POEM
● "The Voice of the Rain" is a short free-verse poem
by the American poet, Walt Whitman.
● Originally published in a periodical called Outing in
1885
● It was later reprinted in Leaves of Grass,
Whitman's most celebrated collection of verse.
● In "The Voice of the Rain," the speaker listens to
the personified figure of the rain and likens itself to
poetry.
● Describing each stage of the water cycle, the
poem pays homage to the restorative power of the
natural world and claims that poetry nourishes
humanity just as rain nourishes the earth.
The Voice of the Rain-Walt Whitman
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, 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; 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
birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or
unreck’d, duly with love returns.)
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,

1.Who art thou – Who are you?

2.Eternal – never-ending
3.Impalpable – which cannot be described
4.Bottomless-without a limit or end
EXPLANATIONS
● In the above lines, the poet asked the
soft-falling shower ‘Who are you?’ to
which the rain replied strangely.
● The rain said that it was the Poem of the
Earth and it rose continuously from the
land and bottomless ocean in the form of
vapours.
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;

1.Whence – where
2.Vaguely – not clearly
3.Descend – come down
4.Lave – wash; bathe
5.Atomies – small particles
6.Latent – hidden/buried
EXPLANATIONS
● The rain tells the poet that it rises upwards towards
the sky in the form of vapour where it changes its
form (condenses into water droplets).
● It also says that although its form gets changed, it
still remains the same-essence is unchanged.
● The rain comes down to wash the drought and
provide water.
● It also washes away the dust and small particles
from the earth’s surface.
● And the seeds inside the earth grow into a plant
because of the water provided by the rain.
● It gives life to the seeds.
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 birthplace,
after fulfilment, wandering
Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.)

1.Reck’d or unreck’d – it means whether

cared for or not cared for. It doesn’t affect the
rain nor the poet if someone listened to the
rain or not.
EXPLANATIONS
● The rain says that day and night it provides life,
care, enrichment, and water to the place from
where it originated.
● The rain keeps enhancing the beauty and purity
of the earth by preparing a life-cycle for itself
again.
● The Rain is like a song that originates from its
birthplace, just like the heart of the singer, and
travels to fulfill the earth’s needs and wanders.
● It finally comes back to the place from where it
originated.
● Whether it is cared for or not, it returns to the
original position, with a lot of love to its
birthplace.
SUMMARY OF THE POEM
● In this poem, the poet asks the soft falling raindrops who it was.
● It is strange that the rain answers, calling itself the poem of the Earth.
● The rain says that it cannot be touched and rises up in the form of vapour out of
the land and deep sea and floats up to heaven, where it changes its form and
becomes a cloud but its core existence remains the same.
● Then it falls back to the surface of the Earth to refresh (wash) the drought-filled
land. It makes the Earth clean and green.
● The seeds which are dormant under the soil, grow (germinate) with its help.
● The Earth becomes vital and beautiful because it always gives new life to the
Earth when it returns to its origin (mother Earth).
● The poet says that the rain returns to its birth place (the Earth) and completes its
cycle.
● It does not care whether anybody pays heed or not, rain continuously does its own
work.
POETIC DEVICES USED IN THE POEM
1. Personification: Although rain is non living thing yet the poet treats it like a
living thing. So the rain has been personified as it has been given a voice in
the rain.
2. Metaphor: ‘I am the poem of the Earth’
3. Hyperbole: ‘Bottomless sea’.
4. Paradox: ‘changed and yet the same’ (opposite ideas)
5. Imagery: In the first line of the poem, ‘Soft falling Shower’ gives the reader an
image of gentle rain.
COMPARISON BETWEEN RAIN AND POETRY
● In Walt Whitman’s "The Voice of the Rain," the
personified figure of the rain compares itself to poetry.
● In describing its own cyclical nature, the rain also
illuminates the essential characteristics of poetry.
● The rain thereby functions as an extended metaphor for
poetry itself, asserting that poetry not only shares a
rain-like life cycle, but is also vital and nourishing for the
world.
● In response to the speaker’s question "Who art thou?",
the rain identifies itself as "the Poem of Earth,"
establishing the rest of the poem as an extended
metaphor.
● The rain then describes the three stages of its life cycle,
● The first being evaporation: "Eternal I rise impalpable
out of the land and the bottomless sea." The rain has not
yet taken physical form, much like the initial thoughts
behind a poem that exist before taking shape on a page.
● This line may also refer to the poetic tradition of drawing
inspiration from the natural world, as though a poem is
rising from nature itself (the “land” and “sea”).
● The next stage is condensation: “Upward to heaven, whence,
vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same.”
● The rain is now a cloud, which corresponds to the poet’s initial
composition of a poem, when their ideas come together to form
a visible work.
● The final stage is precipitation, the point at which the rain at
last falls to the Earth: “I descend to lave the droughts, atomies,
dust-layers of the globe.”
● Here, the rain is crucial to the world's health and survival,
nourishing it after drought.
● Continuing the extended metaphor, the poem makes it clear
that poetry shares this vital role, replenishing humanity with life
just as rain replenishes the Earth.
● Towards the end of the poem, the rain again highlights its role
as a life-sustaining force, claiming that poetry is just as
essential.
● The rain explains how seeds would remain “seeds only, latent,
unborn” without its help, and how it gives back life to its “own
origin;” that is, it evaporates from one place and later returns
water to the same place.
● Similarly, poetry brings inspiration to readers, who may be
inspired to write their own poems and thus continue the
creative cycle.
● The rain’s mention of unborn seeds also situates poetry
as a life source, suggesting that humans need poetry to
grow, just like seeds need rain.
● The final two lines draw another direct link between poetry
and rain: “For song, issuing from its birthplace, after
fulfillment, wandering, / Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love
returns.”
● Like rain, poetry (“song”) rises from a point of origin,
wanders (perhaps like a cloud) as it assumes a form, and
then returns to its creator with love, regardless of whether
it was noticed or appreciated (“reck’d or unreck’d”).
● The word “love” further enriches the connection that the
poem draws between poetry and rain.
● Until this point, the rain described its life cycle as natural
and perhaps unavoidable, but here it seems instead like
an act of love.
● The rain’s personification was already clear from the
poem’s onset, and yet the rain now seems like a more
complex, soulful being.
 IMPORTANT POINTS
● The poem is a conversation.

● The rain rises unnoticeably (as vapour) out of the

land and sea and floats up to heaven, where it
converts into clouds.

● It allows the seeds to grow.

● The poet refers to the poem as a“song” which is
born from the poet’s heart.
● It leaves the poet’s soul and then changes form.
● But it’s same at its core and eventually returns to
the reader as love from readers for the poet.
THE VOICE OF THE RAIN-SETTING

● The poem is set in two places. The first is wherever the

speaker is while standing amidst the "soft-falling shower,"
which speaks back to them in "the voice of the rain."

● The second setting is the entire Earth. Even though the

poem describes an encounter between two beings (which
would have to occur in one, specific location), this
encounter includes a wide-ranging discussing of the whole
planet, and even of the skies and atmosphere surrounding
it ("heaven").

● The rain spends the majority of the poem describing its

water cycle, which occurs over land, sea, and sky; thus the
poem's setting cannot be confined to an exact location,
given the rain's widespread presence.
 SYMBOLISM
● The poem, through extended metaphor, makes explicit that
the "rain" is "the Poem of Earth,"
● We can consider the "rain" to be a symbol for actual poetry
itself.
● For example, when the rain says that it descends "to lave the
droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe," it is referring to
the cleansing and nourishing power of poetry upon
humankind.
● The rain says, everything on earth including "seeds only"
cannot grow without rain.
● The ending of the poem also makes the symbol explicit by
referencing "song," which is just another kind of poetry.
● After "song" leaves its "birth-place," it returns to its songwriter
with "love," just as rain returns with love to hydrate and
revitalize the Earth.
IMPORTANT LINES:

‘Which strange to tell…’

Often, poets take on the role of the mediator between

nature and humanity. The poet admits it was strange
that he could understand the rain and now takes up the
task of translating the answer for the readers.

‘I am the poem of the earth’

There is an immediate metaphoric comparison between

the rain and poetry. However, this significance only
comes to light in the poet’s reflection at the end of the
poem.
‘Eternal I rise…’

The sense of permanence is extremely strong

throughout the poem.The cyclic lifestyle is endless and
shall continue as long as the connect between the rain
and earth persists. The words ‘eternal’, ‘impalpable’,
‘bottomless’ show that though we record the overt
reality, the true scope of nature remains tantalizingly
beyond our rational comprehension.

‘Altogether changed, and yet the same’

The rain changes its appearance from intangible

vapours to abstract clouds, yet, at its core, it remains
the same. This is the universal law that energy is never
destroyed, only transferred from one form to another.
Hence, ironically, in change, lies eternity.
‘I give back life to my own origin’

The rain falls to bring life to the unborn seeds hidden

in the earth, its own birth-place.

‘(For song… duly with love returns)’

These lines have been placed in parentheses

because they are not a part of the conversation
between the poet and the rain, rather its aftermath
where the poet reflects on the conversation. He
realises that the rain’s life is similar to that of any
song. A song’s birth place is the poet’s heart. Once
complete, it is passed on (wanders) from one person
to another. It may change (reck’d) or remain the same
(unreck’d) as it travels, but one day, it returns to the
poet with all due love of the listeners.
SIMILARITY BETWEEN RAIN AND SONG
● A poem brings joy to its poet and readers and rain brings joy to its
origin, the earth.

● This connection becomes more conspicuous in the final two lines.

"(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfillment, wandering
Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns)".

● The life-cycle of rain and song are alike. Both are perennial in nature.

● The sound of the soft-falling rain is in itself a kind of music.

● The song issues from the heart of the poet and travels to reach
others.

● It wanders and, whether heard and enjoyed or not, eventually returns

to its creator with all due love.

● Rain originates from the earth, and after fulfilling its tasks, returns to
its own origin only to spread beauty, purity and love
RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

a)Who does I refer to in the first line?

RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

a)Who does I refer to in the first line?

Ans. I refers to the poet in the first line.
RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

b)What does the rain call itself?

RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

b)What does the rain call itself?

Ans. The rain calls itself the poem of the Earth
RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

c)Why did the poet find the answer given by the rain strange?
RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

c)Why did the poet find the answer given by the rain strange?
Ans. The poet finds the answer given by the rain strange because rain is
inanimate and an answer from rain is impossible.
RTC-1
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

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,

a)Who does I refer to in the first line?

Ans. I refers to the poet in the first line.
b)What does the rain call itself?
Ans. The rain calls itself the poem of the Earth
c)Why did the poet find the answer given by the rain strange?
Ans. The poet finds the answer given by the rain strange because rain is
inanimate and an answer from rain is impossible.
RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

a)What does the use of word ‘eternal’ indicate here?

RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

a)What does the use of word ‘eternal’ indicate here?

Ans. It indicates the cyclic process of rain which never ends.It is perennial.
RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

b)From where does ‘I’ rise and where does it go?

RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

b)From where does ‘I’ rise and where does it go?

Ans. It rises in the form of water vapour from the water bodies on the earth and goes
to the sky in the form of clouds.
RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

c)Which word in the extract means the same as “in a way that is uncertain, indefinite or
unclear”?
RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

c)Which word in the extract means the same as “in a way that is uncertain, indefinite or
unclear”?
Ans. Vaguely
RTC-2
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same,

a)What does the use of word ‘eternal’ indicate here?

Ans. It indicates the cyclic process of rain which never ends.It is perennial.

b)From where does ‘I’ rise and where does it go?

Ans. It rises in the form of water vapour from the water bodies on the earth and goes
to the sky in the form of clouds.

c)Which word in the extract means the same as “in a way that is uncertain, indefinite or
unclear”?
Ans. Vaguely
RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that
follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

a)With what purpose does the rain descend from the sky?
 RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

a)With what purpose does the rain descend from the sky?
Ans. The rain descends to give life to the drought affected areas and plants and to
wash the dust layers enveloping the Earth.
 RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

b)What will happen if ‘I’ was not there?

RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

b)What will happen if ‘I’ was not there?

Ans. If there was no rain then the seeds would remain as seeds and plants would not
grow.
RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

c)……….. is the opposite of ‘latent’.

RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

c)……….. is the opposite of ‘latent’.

Ans. Active
RTC-3
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;

a)With what purpose does the rain descend from the sky?
Ans. The rain descends to give life to the drought affected areas and plants and to
wash the dust layers enveloping the Earth.

b)What will happen if ‘I’ was not there?

Ans. If there was no rain then the seeds would remain as seeds and plants would not
grow.

c)……….. is the opposite of ‘latent’.

Ans. Active
RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

a)In what way does the rain help its place of origin?
RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

a)In what way does the rain help its place of origin?
Ans. The rain helps its place of birth by providing water to the drought-stricken areas
and by washing away impurities from the surface of the Earth
RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

b)What is the importance of the word ‘forever’?

RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

b)What is the importance of the word ‘forever’?

Ans: Forever points at the everlasting features of the natural elements.
RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

c)……….. in the extract is the opposite of ‘ending’.

RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

c)……….. in the extract is the opposite of ‘ending’.

Ans: Origin
RTC-4
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it;

a)In what way does the rain help its place of origin?
Ans. The rain helps its place of birth by providing water to the drought-stricken areas
and by washing away impurities from the surface of the Earth

b)What is the importance of the word ‘forever’?

Ans: Forever points at the everlasting features of the natural elements

c)……….. in the extract is the opposite of ‘ending’.

Ans. Origin
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

a)What is the similarity between a song and the rain?

RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

a)What is the similarity between a song and the rain?

Ans. Both return to their place of origin
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

a)What is the similarity between a song and the rain?

Ans. Both return to their place of origin

b)How has the poet been able to put his own reflections?
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

b)How has the poet been able to put his own reflections?
Ans. By using parentheses or brackets
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

c)For what purpose has the phrase ‘reck’d’ or ‘unreck’d’ used in the passage?
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

c)For what purpose has the phrase ‘reck’d’ or ‘unreck’d’ used in the passage?
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

c)For what purpose has the phrase ‘reck’d’ or ‘unreck’d’ used in the passage?
Ans. To indicate that rain or a song keep completing their life-cycle
RTC-5
Read the extract given below and answer any two of the questions that follow.

(For song, issuing from its birthplace, after fulfilment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d,
duly with love returns.)

a)What is the similarity between a song and the rain?

Ans. Both return to their place of origin

b)How has the poet been able to put his own reflections?
Ans. By using parentheses or brackets

c)For what purpose has the phrase ‘reck’d’ or ‘unreck’d’ used in the passage?
Ans. To indicate that rain or a song keep completing their life-cycle
SHORT QUESTIONS
Q.1. There are two voices in the poem. Whom do they belong to? Which lines
indicate this?
SHORT QUESTIONS
Q.1. There are two voices in the poem. Whom do they belong to? Which lines
indicate this?

Ans. The poem begins in a conversational tone. The two voices in the poem are
the voice of the poet and the voice of the rain. The lines that indicate the voice of
the poet and the rain are, “And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower,” and
the lines that indicate the voice of the rain are, “I am the Poem of Earth, said the
voice of the rain”.
 SHORT QUESTIONS
Q.2. What does the phrase "strange to tell" mean?
SHORT QUESTIONS
Q.2. What does the phrase "strange to tell" mean?

Ans. The phrase “strange to tell” means that it is quite strange for the poet to
believe and express in words that the soft-falling rain replied to his question. At the
beginning of the poem, the poet asks the rain about its identity, to which the rain
replies that it is the 'Poem of Earth'.
SHORT QUESTIONS

Q.3. Why are the last two lines put within brackets?
SHORT QUESTIONS

Q.3. Why are the last two lines put within brackets?

Ans.The lines in the bracket indicate the reflections, observations and thoughts of
the poet. He makes observations about the life-course of a song and draws
similarities between the life-cycle of a song and rain.
LONG QUESTIONS

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

● The connection becomes visible in the final two lines, “(For song, issuing from its
birthplace, after fulfillment, wandering Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns)”.
● In these lines, the poet draws similarities between rain and music observing that the
life-cycle of rain and song are alike.
● The song issues from the heart of the poet and travels to reach others.
● It wanders and, whether heard and enjoyed or not, eventually returns to its creator with all
due love.
● Similarly, rain originates from the earth, and after fulfilling its role of spreading beauty,
purity and life , returns to its place of origin.
● Both are perpetual in nature.
● Moreover, the sound of the soft-falling rain is in itself a kind of music.
LONG QUESTIONS
2.How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what
you have learnt in science.

● In the poem, the water rises from the 'land and the bottomless sea' to reach the
sky.
● There, it transforms itself into vague formation of clouds, different in their structure
than the water from which they originate.
● After wandering, these clouds descend to the earth in the form of rain to provide
relief to the drought-ridden areas and infuse life into the unborn and latent seeds.
● The rain renders the earth with beauty and purity.
● In science, we learn the cyclical process of rain in terms like evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, flowing rivers, groundwater and ocean water etc,while
in the poem the same process becomes interesting and unusual.
● The rain speaks itself to describe its course.
 COMIC STRIP
● A comic strip is a sequence of images with a small amount of text in each box.
● This text is normally inside balloons or written as captions.
● Comic strips (or comic books) are a form of storytelling, which uses drawings or cartoon characters to tell a
story.
● Most comic strips are created for humour, while some can be serious.

KEY ELEMENTS
Key elements of a comic strip include

● Character
● Setting
● Plot - all conveyed in a few frames through a combination of pictures
● Captions
● Dialogue

Due to its condensed format, a comic strip highlights only the most
important elements of its targeted topic.
How to create a comic strip?
1. Step 1: Write your ideas for your comic. A comic strip is no different from writing
a short story. ...
2. Step 2: Draw the frames you need for the comic strip
3. Step 3: Use basic shapes to draw the characters
4. Step 4: Add in the speech and dialogues in speech bubbles and callouts
5. Step 5: Add detail to your cartoon bringing out the theme.
Generally, one comic page has between five and nine panels per page (although
one-panel “splashes” can be used to great effect). It's important to keep in mind that the
more panels there are on a page, the smaller they are going to have to be, and vice versa.

CALLOUTS
CALLOUTS FRAMES FRAMES FRAMES
 ART INTEGRATED ACTIVITY
Tasks:
1.Imagine talking to a ‘Tree’ and as a ‘Human being make a comic
strip showing the conversation keeping the poem in mind.

Environmental Biopiracy and

issues its effect

Greenhouse effect

Global
Anthropogenic solution
footprint
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