Poem 3 ENGLISH - Poem 3

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 unchecked, duly with love returns.)
Questions:
Q.1. Explain ‘I give back life to my own origin’.
Q.2. What change does the rain bring to the earth?

Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, 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;
Questions:
Q.1. What does the poet mean by ‘vaguely formed?
Q.2. Who descends? Why?

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.
Questions:
Q.1. Who is addressed in this stanza?
Q.2. What was the reply received?

Reck’d or unchecked, duly with love returns

And make pure and beautify it’

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

‘Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same*

‘I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain’

List the pair of opposites found in the poem?

Why are the last two lines put within brackets?

How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what you have learnt in science.

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

What does the phrase ‘strange to tell’ mean? ,