Read the following poem and answer the questions. The Voice of the Rain And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell,…

Read the following poem and answer the questions.

The Voice of the Rain

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 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 birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.]

-Walt Whitman

(i) What does the speaker find unusual about the rain?

(ii) Where does the rain origin?

(iii) What does the rain wash away?

(iv) Why does the rain come back to its life?

(v) In what way are the rain and music similar?