Class XI - The Voice of the Rain

Name the poet of the poem The Voice of the Rain.

• Shirley Toulson

• Walt Whitman

• Khalil Jibran

• Ted Hughes

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The poem is in the form of a conversation between the rain and the ...........

• cloud

• sky

• poet

• stranger

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The rain replies that it is the poem of .........

• Nature

• Earth

• Sky

• Vapour

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Impalpable means

• unable to see

• unable to play

• unable to be felt

• able to see

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'thou' in the poem means

• they

• their

• you

• your

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'whence' in the poem means

• from which; from where

• when

• no particular meaning

• once

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The figure of speech employed in 'I am the Poem of Earth' is

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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vaguely means

• openly

• distinctly

• not clearly

• clearly

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''I rise impalpable out of the land.'' What is 'I' here?

• The poet

• The weather

• The nature

• The rain

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•Vapour rises eternally from the deep water bodies and earth’s land. It reaches heaven (the sky) and changes its look to form clouds that can change shapes.

This process is scientifically called....

• humidity

• photosynthesis

• clarification

• condensation