Read the poem and answer the questions. And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here…

Read the poem and answer the questions.

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

a. How does the rain introduce itself to the poet?

b. According to the rain, from where does it rise?

c. What does the rain wash?

d. How will the seeds be without rain?

e. What does the poet compare the rain with?