The Voice of the Rain Word Meaning

The Voice of the Rain

Name: Walt Whitman

Born: 31 May 1819, West Hills, New York, United States

Died: 26 March 1892, Camden, New Jersey, United States

Poems: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, O Captain! My Captain!

Awards: Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration

Word  meanings

Thou - you

Soft-falling- dropping gently

Shower - raindrops when they fall continuously on Earth

Eternal - everlasting

Impalpable - unable to be felt by touching

Bottomless - very deep

Upward - towards a higher level

Whence - from where

Vaguely - unclearly

Form'd- made into a specific shape or form

Descend - move of fall downwards

Lave - wash

Droughts - dry spells

Atomies - very tiny particles

Latent - dormant, inactive

Origin - source

Beautify - make beautiful

Issuing - originating/starting

Fulfilment - completing the cycle

Wandering - moving from one place to another

Reck'd - cared about

Unreck'd - uncared for

Duly - properly, rightly

Literary Devices

1. Hyperbole exaggerated statements

Bottomless sea

2. Imagery visual description of something

Soft-falling shower

Literary Devices 

1. Hyperbole - exaggerated statements-- Bottomless sea

2. Imagery - visual description of something-- Soft-falling shower

3. Metaphor

 An indirect comparison between the qualities of different things -- I am the Poem of Earth rain is being compared to a poem

4. Personification

 The poet used a non-living thing as a living thing in the poet -- I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain