HORNBILL- Poem: THE VOICE OF THE RAIN

The name of the poet of this poem is:

• Shirley Toulson

• Whiteman Walt

• Walt Whitman

• Walt Whitmen

And who art thou? The speaker and the listener of this question is:

• The poet and the rain

• The rain and the poet

• The rain and nature

• All the above

strange to tell, gave me an answer....

why does the speaker finds it strange to answer?

• He feels excited

• finds it difficult to answer

• because he only can understand rain's voice and none else

• all the above

Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed,

What goes upward? and how the form changes?

• vapour and it forms vague clouds

• water and it forms rain

• rain and it causes havoc

• all the above

I descend to

• wash the droughts,

• washes away the dust and small particles from the earth’s surface.

• And to sprout the plants hidden in seeds

• All the above

And forever, by day and night.........

What does the rain do day and night?

• it causes rain

• it gives life to its origin by placing water through rain cycles

• it gives life to the world

• None of the above

Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns..

The words Reck’d or unreck’d, means

• cared for or not cared for

• checked or unchecked

• loved or unloved

• None

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain....

The poetic device in the line is:

• personification and metaphor

• oxymoron

• paradox

• All

....rise impalpable out of the land and the

bottomless sea....

The poetic device in the above line is-

• simile

• hyperbole

• paradox

• all

Soft-falling shower........

The poetic device is:

• personification

• imagery

• metaphor

• none