Detailed Summary of the poem: Full Poem: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, […]
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Stanza-wise summary of the poem: Stanza 1: (Beginning of the poem) Lines: The cardboard shows me how it was… some twelve years or so. Summary: The poet looks at a cardboard photograph that shows her mother as a young girl, around twelve years old. In the picture, her mother is holding hands with […]