English Confluence By CL Gautam

THE VOICE OF THE RAIN -Walt Whitman About the Poet Walter (Walt) Whitman was born on May 31 on 1819 and he breathed his last on March 26, 1892. He is often regarded as the most remarkable and influential poet of United States. He is the one who has to his credit the invention of contemporary American literature as a genre. About the Poem The poet has personified a drop of rain which replies to the poet's query. It is an interesting dialogue between the poet and the drop of rain. When the poet asks the drop of rain who it is, the drop of rain replies that it is the poem of the earth. It then talks about its life cycle, as to how it rises from the different forms of water bodies in the vapour form and moves up; condenses into clouds and returns back in the form of rain drops to quench the thirst of the earth, putting an end to the drought and settling the atomies of the earth. It even gives life to the dormant seeds lying under the bed of the earth. This cycle of evaporation, condens...